In this paper I present an approach to idioms in the HPSG framework. Building on earlier work by Copestake 1994, it employs phrasal types that specify the semantic relationship between the idiomatic words involved. Underspeciied Phrasal Semantics (UPS) does not require separate lexical entries for the words occurring in idioms, and treats a wide range of data more successfully than previous alt...

I. The Problem with Best Interests: A Framework; a Justificatory Idiom; and a Problem ................................. 1192 A. Framework: The Three Dimensions of State Interventions Aimed at Influencing Reproduction .............................................................. 1192 B. Justificatory Idiom: Best Interests of the Resulting Child Justifications, Their Attraction and Prominence .....

this study investigated the comparative effect of teaching idiomatic expressions through practicing them in conversation and paragraph writing on intermediate efl learners’ idiom learning. the participants were sorted out of a population of 134 intermediate students in zabansara language school in khorramabad based on their scores on a preliminary english test (pet) and an idiom test piloted in...

Template Method Pattern (see [5]) solves the problem of the existence of a generic algorithm for a family of classes that needs specialization in each and every concrete class. It does so by implementing the algorithm in the base class and by forwarding implementation details to (pure) virtual functions. In terms of [5] these forwarding functions are called primitive. In this paper we propose a...

Retrieval tasks provide learners with an opportunity to focus both on meaning and on form. There are four different retrieval directions. The present study aimed to identify the optimal direction of recall type retrievals during reading and to investigate the outcomes of each one. Forty-eight intermediate EFL learners took part in the study. One of the experimental groups was provided with the ...

Developers often use an idiom to implement a concern. When a fault is found in an idiom, developers have to find all source code fragments derived from the original. While code-clone detection tools can detect copy-andpasted code, such tools cannot detect code fragments modified after pasted. We are investigating a sequential pattern mining approach to capture idiom-based code that spread acros...