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Polysemy and vagueness in idioms

  • This paper presents a corpus-based approach to the meaning of verb phrase idioms and proposes a set of parameters for the systematic description of their meaning in different contexts. It also discusses polysemy and vagueness in relation to idioms and offers criteria for the operationalisation of this distinction.

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Author details:Christiane HümmerGND, Katerina Stathi
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecl023
ISSN:0950-3846
Title of parent work (English):International journal of lexicography
Subtitle (German):a corpus-based analysis of meaning (Verb phrase idioms)
Publisher:Oxford Univ. Press
Place of publishing:Oxford
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Date of first publication:2006/10/28
Publication year:2006
Release date:2020/04/16
Volume:19
Issue:4
Number of pages:17
First page:361
Last Page:377
Organizational units:Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Romanistik
DDC classification:4 Sprache / 44 Französisch, romanische Sprachen allgemein / 440 Romanische Sprachen; Französisch
Peer review:Referiert
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