On a systematic component of meaning in idioms

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dc.contributor.authorMcGinnis, Martha
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-24T20:10:52Z
dc.date.available2016-06-24T20:10:52Z
dc.date.issued2002-09
dc.description.abstractIt has traditionally been assumed that the meaning of some or all phrasal idioms is non-compositional. However, I argue here that the aspectual meaning of idioms is completely systematic: there are no special aspectual restrictions on idioms, and moreover, the aspectual properties of an idiom are compositional, combining the aspectual properties of its syntactic constituents in the usual way. I show that this observation supports the theory of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz 1994).en_US
dc.description.refereedYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationMcGinnis, M. (2002). On a systematic component of meaning in idioms. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 24(Fall), 1-8.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28969
dc.identifier.issn2371-2643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51456
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.departmentLinguisticsen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectIdiomsen_US
dc.subjectSemanticsen_US
dc.subjectMorphologyen_US
dc.titleOn a systematic component of meaning in idiomsen_US
dc.typejournal article
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