On a systematic component of meaning in idioms
dc.contributor.author | McGinnis, Martha | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-24T20:10:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-24T20:10:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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). | en_US |
dc.description.refereed | Yes | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | McGinnis, M. (2002). On a systematic component of meaning in idioms. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 24(Fall), 1-8. | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28969 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2371-2643 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51456 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Calgary | en_US |
dc.publisher.department | Linguistics | en_US |
dc.publisher.faculty | Arts | en_US |
dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en_US |
dc.subject | Linguistics | en_US |
dc.subject | Idioms | en_US |
dc.subject | Semantics | en_US |
dc.subject | Morphology | en_US |
dc.title | On a systematic component of meaning in idioms | en_US |
dc.type | journal article |