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...
Main Authors: | Flickinger, Daniel, Bond, Francis, Ho, Jia Qian |
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Other Authors: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
Format: | Conference Paper |
Language: | English |
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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 |
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