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Idiomatic Expressions
EditIdiomatic expressions are conventionalized multiword units whose meanings cannot always be fully derived from the literal meanings of their individual components or from the grammatical rules governing their combination [1][2]. They vary in semantic transparency, syntactic flexibility, and lexical fixedness, ranging from relatively transparent expressions to highly non-compositional phrases whose interpretations depend on established linguistic conventions [1][2]. Idiomatic expressions are examined in relation to phraseology, lexical semantics, and the conventionalized patterns through which speakers encode and interpret meaning in a language.
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Non-compositional meaning
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- Geoffrey Nunberg; Ivan A. Sag; Thomas Wasow; Idioms. Language 1994, 70, 491-538. [CrossRef]
- Mansoor Ganji; The Best Way to Teach Phrasal Verbs: Translation, Sentential Contextualization or Metaphorical Conceptualization?. Theory Pract. Lang. Stud. 2011, 1, 1497-1506. [CrossRef]
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