A syntactic study of idioms : psychological states in English and their constraints /: psychological states in English and their constraints. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Anna Da̧browska.
• Authors: Dąbrowska, Anna, 1953-
• Contents: Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; List of Tables; List of Charts; Introduction; Chapter One; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The definition of an idiom; 1.2.1 Dictionaries and linguistic encyclopaedias as the sources of definitions of the notion of idiom; 1.2.2 Linguists' and scientists' definitions of an idiom; 1.3 The characteristics of idioms; 1.3.1 Metaphoricity / figurativeness; 1.3.2 Analysability vs. non-compositionality; 1.3.3 Fixedness of form and internal structure; 1.3.4 Literalness, familiarity and predictability of idioms 1.4 Hypotheses and models of idiom representation and processing1.4.1 Non-compositional Models; 1.4.2 Compositional Models; 1.4.3 Hybrid Approaches; 1.5 The working definition of an idiom; 1.6 Concluding remarks; Chapter Two; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Syntactic typology of psych-verbs; 2.3 The lexical-semantic representation of a verb; 2.4 Aspectual classification of psych-verbs; 2.4.1 Basic event categories; 2.4.2 Aspectual classes of psych-verbs; 2.5 Syntactic structures and characteristics of psych-verbs; 2.5.1 Belletti and Rizzi's (1988) unaccusative approach to OE psych-verbs 2.5.2 Landau's (2005, 2010) locative approach2.5.3 Fábregas and Marín's (2015) layer theory; 2.5.4 Grafmiller's (2013) account of psych-verbs; 2.6 Concluding remarks; Chapter Three; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Towards the specification of the selection criteria; 3.2.1 Belletti and Rizzi's (1988) tripartite classification of psych-verbs; 3.2.2 Top frequent psych-verbs in the COCA Corpus; 3.2.3 The top psych-verbs vs. basic emotion domains; 3.2.4 The final selection of the psych-verbs; 3.3 Psychological idiomatic phrases; 3.3.1 The aim of the research 3.3.2 The working definition of idiomatic units reconsidered3.3.3 Data collection and methodology applied; 3.4 Data analysis and preliminary discussion of the results; 3.4.1 Idiomatic units with an Experiencer in the subject position; 3.4.2 Idiomatic phrases for OE (class II) psych-verbs; 3.4.3 Idiomatic phrases for OE (class III) psych-verbs; 3.5 Concluding remarks; Chapter Four; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Classifying and characterising idioms; 4.2.1 Semantic dimensions of idiomaticity; 4.2.2 Idiomatically combining expressions vs. idiomatic phrases 4.3 Syntactic and semantic variability of idiomatically combining expressions (ICEs) with psychological meaning4.3.1 Alternations affecting the idiomatic object NP in psychological idioms; 4.3.2 Alternations of the syntactic configuration of elements in psychological idiomatically combining expressions; 4.3.3 Co-occurrence dependencies in psychological ICEs; 4.4 Constraints on the syntactic structure of psychological idioms. Previous accounts; 4.4.1 Nunberg et al.'s (1994) semantic alternative to the Hierarchy Constraint; 4.4.2 O'Grady's (1998) Continuity Constraint
• Publisher Details: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 355 pages), illustrations, charts
• Subjects: 428.1; Linguistics; English language -- Idioms; Psycholinguistics; English language -- Idioms; Psycholinguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General; Grammar, syntax & morphology; Semantics, discourse analysis, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781527516786; 1527516784
• Related ISBNs: 1527506169; 9781527506169
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-355).; Note: Print version record.
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