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| dc.contributor.author | McNally, Louise, 1965- |
|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Gehrke, Berit |
| dc.date | 2019 |
| dc.identifier.citation | Gehrke B, McNally L. Idioms and the syntax/semantics interface of descriptive content vs. reference. Linguistics. 2019; 57(4): 769-814. DOI: 10.1515/ling-2019-0016 |
| dc.identifier.citation | 1613-396X |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0016 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/42355 |
| dc.description.abstract | The syntactic literature on idioms contains some proposals that are surprising from a compositional perspective. For example, Sportiche (2005) and Cecchetto and Donati (2015) propose that, in the case of verb-object idioms, the verb combines directly with the noun inside its DP complement, and the determiner is introduced higher up in the syntactic structure, or is late-adjoined. This seems to violate compositionality insofar as it is generally assumed that the semantic role of the determiner is to convert a noun to the appropriate semantic type to serve as the argument to the function denoted by the verb. In this paper, we establish a connection between this line of analysis and lines of work in semantics that have developed outside of the domain of idioms, particularly work on incorporation and a mixed formal and distributional semantic model developed in McNally (2017); McNally and Boleda (2017). This semantic work separates the composition of descriptive content from that of discourse referent introducing material; our proposal shows that this separation offers a particularly promising way to handle the compositional difficulties posed by idioms, including certain patterns of variation in intervening determiners and modifiers. |
| dc.description.abstract | This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 715154), grant FFI2016-76045-P (AEI/MINEICO/FEDER, UE), a Salvador de Madariaga mobility grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, an ICREA Academia award, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. |
| dc.format | application/pdf |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | De Gruyter |
| dc.relation | Linguistics. 2019; 57(4): 769-814. DOI: 10.1515/ling-2019-0016 |
| dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/715154 |
| dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2016-76045-P |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess |
| dc.rights | © De Gruyter Published version available at https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ling.2019.57.issue-4/ling-2019-0016/ling-2019-0016.xml http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0016 |
| dc.subject | Idiom |
| dc.subject | Incorporation |
| dc.subject | Event kind |
| dc.subject | Modification |
| dc.subject | Reference |
| dc.title | Idioms and the syntax/semantics interface of descriptive content vs. reference |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion |
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