The emergent patterns of Italian idioms : a dynamic-systems approach

In traditional generative linguistic theories, idiomatic constructions are seen as a sort of “anomaly”, and dismissed as non-decomposable items of non-literal language, uninteresting and “peripheral”. Contrary to this view, in the last decades psycholinguistic and corpus-linguistic studies have show...

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Main Author: Torre, Enrico
Other Authors: Semino, Elena
Published: Lancaster University 2014
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669589