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

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Ho, Jia Qian
• مؤلفون آخرون: Francis Bond
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2015
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Library and information science
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62737
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

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...