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Date: 11-Apr-2006
From: Jan-Philipp Soehn < jp.soehn at uni-tuebingen.de >
Subject: Über Bärendienste und erstaunte Bauklötze -- Idiome ohne freie Lesart in der HPSG 

	
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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:47:21
From: Jan-Philipp Soehn < jp.soehn at uni-tuebingen.de >
Subject: Über Bärendienste und erstaunte Bauklötze -- Idiome ohne freie Lesart in der HPSG 
 


Institution: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 
Program: Department of German Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2006 

Author: Jan-Philipp Soehn

Dissertation Title: Über Bärendienste und erstaunte Bauklötze -- Idiome ohne
freie Lesart in der HPSG 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): German, Standard (deu)


Dissertation Director(s):
Harald Burger
Frank Richter
Christine Römer

Dissertation Abstract:

In this thesis, I propose a syntactic description of verbal idiomatic
expressions, such as jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen (to do a
disservice to so.), Bauklötze staunen (to be flabbergasted) or jemanden
übers Ohr hauen (to take so. for a ride).

Morphological, syntactic, semantic and cognitive characteristics of
idiomatic expressions are discussed, focusing on idioms without free
readings. The main thrust of the analysis is to sketch lexical entries for
decomposable and non-decomposable idioms.

The analysis is based empirically on a compilation of examples and
quotations taken from newspaper corpora. This compilation is available on
CD (together with the book), as well as online.

The architecture of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Pollard and Sag
1994) is extended with a model-theoretic semantics (LRS, Richter and Sailer
2004) and a collocation module is introduced. 




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