The syntactic flexibility of idioms
- The present study is concerned with the syntactic flexibility of English idioms. It is argued that two aspects must be considered when explaining the syntactic behavior of idioms. First, the idiom in question must decomposable, meaning that the individual parts must have some independent meaning. Secondly, pragmatic factors and speakers' motivations must be taken into account. This corpus-based study and its results support a speaker-based grammar model. Furthermore, some syntactic constructions can be generally ruled out for idioms.
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| Author: | Daniela SchröderORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-355315 |
| Referee: | Gert WebelhuthORCiDGND, Manfred SailerORCiDGND |
| Advisor: | Gert Webelhuth |
| Document Type: | Magister's Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2014/11/05 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2013/11/21 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Granting Institution: | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität |
| Date of final exam: | 2013/01/25 |
| Release Date: | 2017/11/02 |
| Tag: | Idioms; Syntax |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 423728792 |
| Institutes: | Neuere Philologien |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
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