Morphological Isolates in Idioms: Cranberries or Real Words?  

Oleh:

Nenonen, Marja ; Niemi, Jussi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 68 no. 1-2 (1999), page 158-164.
Topik: idioms; Finnish; idiomatic isolates; morphological family size
Fulltext: 68_01-02_Nenonen.pdf (102.32KB)

Isi artikel

The present study focuses on a subtype of Finnish nouns that appear only as complements in idiomatic verb phrases. In addition to the idioms as their sole environment, these idiomatic isolates, as we call them, are typically frozen to a single case form. In two experiments, in a subjective rating task and a lexical decision task, the isolates are pitted against ordinary nouns and nouns that appear as frozen forms in idioms in addition to being ordinary, free words. The experiments show that the isolates, in spite of their defective syntactic and morphological properties, are processed like ordinary lexical items.

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