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Gottschalk, Klaus-Dieter – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1975
Discusses theories of Chafe and Halliday and of Searles regarding idioms in English. The former two show that the division into "old" and "new" information determines English sentence structure. Chafe's definition of lexical and grammatical idioms makes possible prediction regarding their syntax and function. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English, Idioms, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedEriksson, Olof – Journal of Linguistics, 1979
Examines the use of the neuter form in predicate adjectives, drawing examples from Swedish and French, and working within the framework of nexus constructions. (AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, French, Grammar, Idioms
Peer reviewedMalone, Joseph L. – Linguistics, 1971
Revised and expanded version of a paper read to the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Linguistics, New York City, March 14, 1970. (VM)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Ambiguity, Descriptive Linguistics, Idioms
Swinney, David A.; Cutter, Anne – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Two experiments examined the nature of access, storage, and comprehension of idiomatic phrases, using a phrase classification task. Results support a lexical representation hypothesis for the processing of idioms. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Figurative Language, Grammar
