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The Smurf comics series is, among others, famous for the so-called "smurf language", in which words or parts of words can be replaced by "smurf". We will argue that this "smurfing" has the properties of placeholding. Based on data from German translations of Smurf comics, we will provide a formalization of smurfing in German which can be generalized to a theory of placeholder expressions.
This paper describes an analysis for possessive idioms in English (e.g. 'I twiddle my thumbs' ''I am idle''). The analysis relies on matching at the semantic level, to allow for syntactic variation. It has been implemented in the English Resource Grammar, and tested by parsing a subset of the British National Corpus. In addition to the syntactic analysis, we have linked the idioms to entries in the Princeton Wordnet, to allow for further lexical semantic analysis.
This paper presents a brief overview of idiomatic expressions in the Norwegian LFG grammar NorGram and shows how the rich lexical information of the LFG grammar can be reused in an HPSG-like grammar with a radically different approach to alternating argument frames. Rather than accounting for idioms by means of special idiom lexical entries, which is the standard approach in LFG and HPSG, a constructional approach is taken where the verbs of the idioms are left underspecified with regard to whether they are idioms or not. A hierarchy of subconstruction types is assumed, which for each piece of evidence provided by the words and rules of the sentence, narrows down the possible frames of the verb to just one.
This work focuses on the syntax and semantics of the expression vice versa, and shows that its syntactic distribution is much more flexible than semantically related expressions. Although vice versa usually appears in clausal coordinate environments, it can in principle occur in any other type of construction. Second, it can occur as an embedded verb phrase or even as a noun phrase, rather than as an adjunct. This suggests that vice versa is a propositional anaphor that corresponds to a converse of a propositional antecedent. Finally, although the predicates singled out to be interchanged are usually nominal, they can in fact be of virtually any part of speech. I argue that a possible account of the interpretation of vice versa lies at the interface between logical form (with rich decompositional lexical semantics along the lines of Pustejovsky (1995)), and pragmatics (drawing from independent work by Hobbs (1990) and Kehler (2002)).
In this paper we investigate German idioms which contain phraseologically fixed clauses (PCl). To provide a comprehensive HPSG theory of PCls we extend the idiom theory of Soehn 2006 in such a way that it can distinguish different degrees of regularity in idiomatic expressions. An in-depth analysis of two characteristic PCls shows how our two-dimensional theory of idiomatic expressions can be applied and illustrates the scope of the theory.
In this contribution we propose a new module for handling idioms and distributional idiosyncrasies. Based on the concept by Richter/Sailer (1999) the new feature COLL (context of lexical licensing) plays the central role in our approach. We provide a way to handle decomposable and nondecomposable idioms and idioms containing bound words. Our module guarantees the co-occurrence of all idiom parts and of bound word and licensing context, respectively. A prerequisite for our analysis is a means to select for particular elements in the lexicon. We introduce another feature, LISTEME, which gives each lexical item its unique identifier andmakes it possible to select for a particular lexical word or phrase. Finally, we compare our proposal with alternative approaches and give some ideas regarding further applications beyond idiomaticity.
'The Staircase Wit; or, The Poetic Idiomaticity of Herta Müller's Prose' explores idioms and 'Sprachbilder' as poetic views of the mother tongue. This exploration involves a special focus on Müller's Nobel lecture, considered as both a compendium and an enactment of her meditations on language, on the nature of writing, and on the creative process. While Müller frequently employs idioms in her articles, lectures, and novel titles, she never uses them in a superficial way or as a mere reproduction of common or daily speech. Rather, as this essay argues, idioms in Müller's prose are indicative of her attitude toward language and toward the mother tongue in general. In the Nobel lecture as well as elsewhere, idioms serve a dual, occasionally conflicting purpose, combining the need for the 'singularity' of aesthetic experience with the search for a new kind of 'conventionality'.
Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird auf eine Familie deutscher Konstruktionen eingegangen, denen das Reduplikationsmuster [von Xsg zu Xsg] zugrunde liegt. Den theoretischen Rahmen der Arbeit bilden zentrale Postulate der Konstruktionsgrammatik. Als empirische Basis dienen deutsch-russische (RNC) und deutsch-spanische (PaGeS) Parallelkorpora. Das zu untersuchende Pattern ist formal durch die Doppelung des im Singular auftretenden Substantivs ohne Artikel und semantisch durch verschiedene Lesarten z.B. 'iterative Fortbewegung' ('von Haus zu Haus gehen') oder "stetige Entwicklung' ('von Tag zu Tag zunehmen') gekennzeichnet. Auf kontrastiver Ebene spielt die lexikalische Slotfüllung jedes Konstrukts eine besondere Rolle, denn sie bedingt auch die formalen und semantischen Besonderheiten der Entsprechungen im Russischen und im Spanischen. In diesem Zusammenhang wird in erster Linie anhand der konsultierten deutsch-russischen bzw. deutsch-spanischen Parallelkorpora versucht, die funktional äquivalenten Konstruktionen des deutschen Patterns festzulegen.
Der Gegenstand der Analyse ist die Verwendung von potentiellen slowenischen phraseologischen Neologismen in den neuen Medien. Obwohl uns heute wertvolle Daten aus den elektronischen Korpora zur Verfügung stehen, stellt die Identifikation phraseologischer Neologismen eine methodologische Herausforderung dar. Für ihre Bestimmung sind spezifische Daten wie Frequenz, kontextuelle Einbettung und Konnotation aus den Korpora notwendig. Bei der Interpretation phraseologischer Prozesse sind unter anderem Fragen aufgetaucht, in welchen Medien potentielle Neologismen vorkommen, wie stark ihre Stabilität ist und ob es Unterschiede zwischen den einzelnen Typen phraseologischer Neologismen gibt.