Feeling our way to an analysis of English possessed idioms

This paper describes an analysis for possessive idioms in English (e.g. I twiddle my thumbs’ “I am idle”). The analysis relies on matching at the semantic level, to allow for syntactic variation. It has been implemented in the English Resource Grammar, and tested by parsing a subset of the British N...

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Main Authors: Flickinger, Daniel, Bond, Francis, Ho, Jia Qian
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80364
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40505
https://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/HPSG/2015/abstr-bhf.shtml