Idioms

Martin Everaert, Erik-Jan van der Linden, Andr‚ Schenk, Rob Schreuder, Robert Schreuder

• Contents: M. Everaert, E-J. van der Linden, A. Schenk, R. Schreuder, Introduction. A. Abeillé , The Flexibility of French Idioms: A Representation with Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar. C. Cacciari, S. Glucksberg, Imagining Idiomatic Expressions: Literal or Figurative Meanings? D. Geeraerts, Specialization and Reinterpretation in Idioms. F. van Gestel, EN BLOC Insertion. R.W. Gibbs, Jr., Idiomaticity and Human Cognition. P. Drew, E. Holt, Idiomatic Expressions and Their Role in the Organization of Topic Transition in Conversation. R. Jackendoff, The Boundaries of the Lexicon. I. Mel'cuk, Phrasemes in Language and Phraseology in Lingusitics. T. Nicolas, Semantics of Idiom Modification. A. Schenk, The Syntactic Behavior of Idioms. P. Tabossi, F. Zardon, The Activation of Idiomatic Meaning. M.E.C. van de Voort, W. Vonk, You Don't Die Immediately When You Kick an Empty Bucket: A Processing View on Semantic and Syntactic Characteristics of Idioms. H. Zeevat, Idiomatic Blocking and the Elsewhere Principle.

"The book is quite comprehensive. It successfully covers areas of primary concern to idiom researchers, especially compositionality, syntactic flexibility, and the place of idioms in the lexicon. In addition, many of the chapters nicely review standard processing models."—American Journal of Psychology