Aspectual mismatches in the interpretation of idioms: the view from AspP
The present paper is an attempt to uncover some of the (syntactic) properties of idioms that present aspectual mismatches between their literal and idiomatic interpretation. The novelty value of the proposal lies in its syntactic rather than semantic or cognitive approach: whereas most accounts in t...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
2016-11-01
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Series: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2.-BWPL_2016_2_Farkas.pdf |