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.
Author details: | Christiane HümmerGND, Katerina Stathi |
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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 |