Feeling our way to an analysis of English possessed idioms

This paper describes an analysis for possessive idioms in English (e.g. I twiddle my thumbs’ “I am idle”). The analysis relies on matching at the semantic level, to allow for syntactic variation. It has been implemented in the English Resource Grammar, and tested by parsing a subset of the British N...

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Main Authors:	Flickinger, Daniel, Bond, Francis, Ho, Jia Qian
Other Authors:	School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-803642019-12-06T13:48:00Z Feeling our way to an analysis of English possessed idioms Flickinger, Daniel Bond, Francis Ho, Jia Qian School of Humanities and Social Sciences Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Linguistics and Multilingual Studies This paper describes an analysis for possessive idioms in English (e.g. I twiddle my thumbs’ “I am idle”). The analysis relies on matching at the semantic level, to allow for syntactic variation. It has been implemented in the English Resource Grammar, and tested by parsing a subset of the British National Corpus. In addition to the syntactic analysis, we have linked the idioms to entries in the Princeton Wordnet, to allow for further lexical semantic analysis MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore) Published version 2016-05-09T08:57:32Z 2019-12-06T13:48:00Z 2016-05-09T08:57:32Z 2019-12-06T13:48:00Z 2015-08-01 2015 Conference Paper Bond, F., Ho, J. Q., Flickinger, D. (2015). Feeling our way to an analysis of English possessed idioms. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 61-74. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80364 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40505 https://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/HPSG/2015/abstr-bhf.shtml 191861 en © 2015 CSLI Publications. This paper was published in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and is made available as an electronic reprint (preprint) with permission of CSLI Publications. The published version is available at: [https://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/HPSG/2015/abstr-bhf.shtml]. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law. 14 p. application/pdf
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description	This paper describes an analysis for possessive idioms in English (e.g. I twiddle my thumbs’ “I am idle”). The analysis relies on matching at the semantic level, to allow for syntactic variation. It has been implemented in the English Resource Grammar, and tested by parsing a subset of the British National Corpus. In addition to the syntactic analysis, we have linked the idioms to entries in the Princeton Wordnet, to allow for further lexical semantic analysis
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