Variation Within Idiomatic Variation: Exploring the Differences Between Speakers and Idioms

Corpus-based research on idiomatic variation has shown that idioms can be utilized with an extensive range of variation, including the possibility of idioms occurring with adjectival modification (e.g. make rapid headway), lexical variation (e.g. the calm/lull before the storm), and partial forms (e...

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Published in:	East European Journal of Psycholinguistics
Main Authors:	Kristina Geeraert, John Newman, R. Harald Baayen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University 2020-12-01
Subjects:	idioms idiomatic variation creativity experimental person-oriented english
Online Access:	https://eejpl.vnu.edu.ua/index.php/eejpl/article/view/362/243