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Trip the freaking light fantastic : = Syntactic structure in English idioms.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Trip the freaking light fantastic :/
Reminder of title:	Syntactic structure in English idioms.
Author:	Neal, Anissa Nicole.
Description:	1 online resource (66 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International56-06(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355179699

Trip the freaking light fantastic : = Syntactic structure in English idioms.
Neal, Anissa Nicole.

Trip the freaking light fantastic :Syntactic structure in English idioms. - 1 online resource (66 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-06.

Thesis (M.A.)

Includes bibliographical references

In past scholarship, idioms have been discussed from a mostly semantic perspective; authors have been primarily concerned with how idiomatic meaning is composed and stored (Swinney and Cutler 1979; Gibbs 1980; 1986). This thesis investigates idioms' syntactic behavior and concludes that all verbal idioms of English have stored, internal syntactic structure. Vacuous modification (i.e. modification that does not contribute to the semantics of the phrase), metalinguistic modification (i.e. modification that indicates non-literal readings), aspect, and subject-oriented adverbs (SOAs) are used to test a variety of idioms for evidence of syntactic structure. There are restrictions on the syntactic processes some idioms can undergo (i.e. passivization and raising constructions). However, this is not due to their lack of internal syntax, but how their meaning is mapped onto the internal syntax.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355179699Subjects--Topical Terms:

557829
Linguistics.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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