Volume 24, Fall 2002

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Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 24, Fall 2002
(University of Calgary, 2002-09) Dobrovolsky, Michael; Edwards, Jodi
The editors of this volume, Jodi Edwards and Michael Dobrovolsky are pleased to present the twenty-fourth issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics published by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Calgary. The papers contained in this volume represent works in progress and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive.
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On a systematic component of meaning in idioms
(University of Calgary, 2002-09) McGinnis, Martha
It has traditionally been assumed that the meaning of some or all phrasal idioms is non-compositional. However, I argue here that the aspectual meaning of idioms is completely systematic: there are no special aspectual restrictions on idioms, and moreover, the aspectual properties of an idiom are compositional, combining the aspectual properties of its syntactic constituents in the usual way. I show that this observation supports the theory of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1994).