Idiomatic Expressions and Grammatical Constructions: Volume 230 by Kay, Paul

Idiomatic Expressions and Grammatical Constructions: Volume 230 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780937073414)

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Idiomatic Expressions and Grammatical Constructions: Volume 230 by Kay, Paul

Idiomatic Expressions and Grammatical Constructions: Volume 230

$35.00
Idiomatic Expressions and Grammatical Constructions: Volume 230 by Kay, Paul

Idiomatic Expressions and Grammatical Constructions: Volume 230

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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A thorough investigation into idioms and their grand meaning, including how best to analyze them.

Any theory of idioms should be part and parcel of a general theory of grammar, adding as little machinery to one's overall grammatical approach as possible in describing both the syntactic and semantic idiosyncrasies and regularities of this large class of linguistic expressions. This volume presents several lexicalist analyses of idioms within the framework of Sign-Based Construction Grammar, reflecting three guiding principles: many but not all idioms are syntactically and semantically compositional, dividing into distinct classes; idioms are analyzable in terms of a suitably rich lexicon and a set of constructions (lexical and syntactic rules) with corresponding meaning representations; and idiomaticity is a gradient phenomenon, exhibiting wide variation in degree of syntactic flexibility and meaning.

Author: Paul Kay, Laura a. Michaelis, Ivan A. Sag
ISBN-10: 0937073415
ISBN-13: 9780937073414
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2025
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
By Paul Kay
By Paul Kay
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Paul Kay is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and adjunct professor of linguistics at Stanford University. Laura Michaelis is professor of linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Science. She was a founding editor of the Cambridge University Press journal Language and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language and Cognitive Science. Ivan A. Sag (1949-2013) was professor of linguistics at Stanford University. He was the author of Syntactic Theory, 2nd Edition, German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Interrogative Investigations, Sign-Based Construction Grammar, and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Dan Flickinger was a senior research associate at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University and coeditor of Collected Papers of Martin Kay.

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