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"This study is devoted to the analysis of Italian idioms with either ordinary or support verbs (also called light verbs). The research focuses on the exhaustive description of idioms, and is based on their systematic classification according to the principles of the Lexicon-Grammar methodology developed by Maurice Gross (1975, 1979 and further). A thorough examination of the literature shows strong disagreement on the acceptability of some idiomatic constructions. For this reason, the Web was used as a corpus to verify judgments on the supposed ungrammatical constructions. This approach showed that idiomatic constructions which have always been considered ungrammatical are instead perfectly acceptable if contextualized. The results obtained include the following: passive is not a ""special case"" when it concerns idioms, and idiomatic constructions show the same complexity as non-idiomatic constructions."

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Author:   Simonetta Vietri (University of Salerno)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   31
Weight:   0.615kg
ISBN:  

9789027231413

ISBN 10:   9027231419
Pages:   259
Publication Date:   26 November 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Chapter 1. Ambiguity and creativity; 3. Chapter 2. Compositionality and syntactic productivity; 4. Chapter 3. The Lexicon-Grammar of Italian idioms; 5. Chapter 4. Passive; 6. Chapter 5. Si-constructions; 7. Chapter 6. Adjectival passive; 8. Chapter 7. Subject idioms; 9. Chapter 8. Other syntactic constructions; 10. Chapter 9. Modification; 11. Chapter 10. Comparative constructions; 12. Chapter 11. Derived nominals and VC compounds; 13. Chapter 12. Nominalizations and passive; 14. Chapter 13. Idioms with support verbs; 15. Chapter 14. Natural language processing; 16. Conclusions; 17. References; 18. Annex 1. The passive of tirare; 19. Annex 2: Idioms and body-parts nouns; 20. Annex 3: Classification and notations; 21. Index

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