{"product_id":"idiomatic-expressions-and-grammatical-constructions-paul-kay-9780937073414","title":"Idiomatic Expressions and Grammatical Constructions: Volume 230","description":"\u003cb\u003eA thorough investigation into idioms and their grand meaning, including how best to analyze them.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Kay, Laura a. Michaelis, Ivan A. Sag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0937073415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780937073414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Center for the Study of Language and Informat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Paul Kay","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46571013636351,"sku":"9780937073414","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bc96a057-6991-45cf-af38-b2799b0d938c.jpg?v=1738807007","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/idiomatic-expressions-and-grammatical-constructions-paul-kay-9780937073414","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}