Losing one's mind over meaning : analysing the behaviour of possessive idioms

Idioms are commonly found in everyday language and reflect the conventionalisations in speech communities. Regarding English idioms, past research have examined the syntactic and semantic analysis of idioms (Villavicencio & Copestake, 2002), along with their decomposability (Nunberg, 1978; Gibbs...

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Main Author: Ho, Jia Qian
Other Authors: Francis Bond
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62737
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English