Idioms  

Oleh:

Nunberg, Geoffrey ; Sag, Ivan A. ; Wasow, Thomas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 70 no. 3 (1994), page 491-538.
Fulltext: Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 491-538.pdf (11.29MB)

Isi artikel

In the literature of generative grammar, idiomaticity has been widely identified with noncompositionality. Such a definition fails to recognize several important dimensions of idiomaticity, including, among others, conventionality and figuration. We propose to distinguish IDIOMATICALLY COMBINING EXPRESSIONS (e.g. tcake advalntage, pull strings), whose meanings-while conventional-are distributed among their parts, from IDIO- MATIC PHRASES (e.g. kick thec bucket, saw( logs), which do not distribute their meanings to their components. Most syntactic arguments based on idioms are flawed, we argue, because they treat all idioms as noncompositional. A careful examination of the semantic properties of idioms and the metaphors that many of them employ helps to explain certain intriguing asymmetries in the grammatical and thematic roles of idiomatic noun phrases.*

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