Idiomatic utterances contribute by virtue of their aspectual class to the temporal structure of discourse – hence it is essential that theories of aspect derivation and discourse structure should encompass them. A recent claim has been made (McGinnis 2002) that the aspectual class of idiomatic expressions can be derived compositionally, by the same process as in literal language. We examine thi...

The programming language Java was introduced to the IT community as an “easy-to-learn” and “easy-to-use” language (typically referring to C++ for comparison). While this is certainly true, it turns out that even this supposedly easy language offers a lot of choices and comes with many programming idioms that must be understood thoroughly in order to produce high-quality software implemented in ...

the meaning of an idiomatic expression cannot be transparently worked out from the meanings of its constituent words due to its figurative and unpredictable nature. consequently, the syntactic composition and the structural paradigm of an idiomatic expression are supposed to be the same in every context. however, this is not the case in the institutionalized second language varieties of english...

Being a multifaceted unit idioms can be studied from five angles: meaning, function, style, emotiveness and contrastive analysis. The merit of this paper lies in the fact that it attempts to analyze evaluative functions English idioms. analysis is performed within functional framework thesis establish semantics Idioms operate as encoded resources for amplifying attitudinal meanings entities phe...

This research examines idiomatic expressions found in the translation of Twain’s ‘The Adventures Huckleberry Finn’ from English into Indonesian; identifies characteristics expressions; and investigates translator’s decision to apply procedures translating equivalence. was data-driven study which focuses on an American novel, The Finn written by Mark Twain (1884/2018) as Source Text (ST) its Ind...

Exceptions are a powerful feature for the propagation and handling of failure of operations. Naive use of exceptions however introduces subtle complexity into a system due to the nonlocal nature of throwing an exception. This paper presents a pattern language of eleven Java idioms which serve as a framework for using exceptions. The patterns help to balance the forces that the overall complexit...

Verbal idioms constitute a challenge for machine translation systems: their meaning is not compositional, preventing a wordfor-word translation, and they can be discontinuous, preventing a match during tokenization. This paper presents the treatment of verbal idioms in our machine translation system, which addresses both challenges by deferring idiom matching until after the parse, and by allow...

Agent-oriented programming is a new paradigm for conceptualizing a computational system (Shoham, 1993), differing primarily from object-oriented programming in the inclusion of mental state in each of the processes. This paper offers two special-case versions (or idioms) of agent-oriented programming that encapsulates master-slave and peer-peer type interactions in simple protocols. These two i...

A standard view is that idioms present problems for compositionality. The question of compositionality, however, should be posed for a semantics, not for individual phrases. The paper focuses on the idiom extension problem: Suppose in a given language a certain phrase acquires the status of an idiom. How can the syntax and semantics be extended to accommodate the idiom, while preserving desirab...

The need to express important non.Java behaviors confronts the Ovm virtual machine framework no less than any other VM-in-Java project such as JikesRVM[1].2 Any such project needs mechanisms for the purpose, but different choices in the VM design affect the shape those mechanisms can take. In exploring how a component that makes nontrivial use of such mechanisms-the JMTk memory management toolk...