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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Main Author: Imola-Ágnes Farkas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2016-11-01
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