This article examines idiomatic expressions as sources of both regularity and irregularity in language. Some morphological, lexical, syntactical, and semantical characteristics of idioms are discussed. It is shown how a lexical licensing mechanism, which is formulated within a formal grammar framework, can deal with the data. After that, this proposal is extended to the phenomenon of negative p...

In Translation Studies, the idiom is usually viewed as an important constitutive component of source text and a possible translation problem. Several strategies techniques rendering idioms have been developed discussed, plethora research focused on ways in which selected are rendered target texts. However, despite fact that frequently appear texts counterparts non-idiomatic expressions, has not...

Although it might appear contradictory to investigate noncanonical phraseological combinations in corpora, corpus linguistics research has revealed that they exceed canonical forms number (Philip 2008). This paper intends discuss the idea of fixedness by analyzing variant idioms, and if qualify as wordplay. The Web, our data source, is employed for collecting such occurrences both English Portu...

Notesaaz is both a new physical interface meant for musical performance and a proposal for a three-stage process where the controller is used to navigate within a graphical score that on its turn controls the sound generation. It can be seen as a dynamic and understandable way of using dynamic mapping between the sensor input and the sound generation. Furthermore by presenting the graphical sco...

Recent neuropsychological and neurophysiological studies have suggested that the neural correlates of idiom processing are predominantly located in the left Brodmann's area (BA) 22 and, to some extent, in the prefrontal cortex. The present study explores the temporal dynamics of left prefrontal and temporal cortex in idiom processing by using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) ...