TY  - GEN
A1  - Schröder, Daniela
T1  - The syntactic flexibility of idioms
N2  - 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.
KW  - Idioms
KW  - Syntax
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/35531
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-355315
ER  -