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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...

Human interpretation of natural language relies heavily on cognitive processes involving metaphorical and idiomatic meanings. One area of computational linguistics in which such processes play an important, but largely unaddressed, role is the determination of the properties of multiword predicates (MWPs). MWPs such as give a groan and cut taxes involve metaphorical meaning extensions of highly...

Two studies are presented that investigated whether and to what extent emigration affects the knowledge of idiomatic expressions in native language. Data on Dutch emigrant idiom were compared data from two groups non-emigrants differing age. Research questions addressed a) possible differences between emigrants non-emigrants, b) effect properties such as familiarity transparency c) participant ...

A comprehensive grammatical model produced for analyzing the agglutinated structure which characterizes the Japanese language is presented. This model, which includes extensively idiomatic postpositional expressions as terminals, is quite effective for the development of the Japanese language processor receptive to a reasonable variety of sentential forms and applicable to relatively wide fields.