Idiomatic Constructions in Italian : A Lexicon-Grammar approach.

IDIOMATIC CONSTRUCTIONS IN ITALIAN -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Ambiguity and creativity -- Chapter 2. Compositionality and syntactic productivity -- 2.1 Metaphorical semantic composition -- 2.2 Thematic composition -- 2.3 The psycholinguistics research -- Chapter 3. The Lexicon-Grammar of Italian idioms -- Chapter 4. Passive -- 4.1 Plain Passive: Fixed Object + V (da-phrase) -- 4.2 Plain Passive: V + Fixed Object (da-phrase) -- 4.3 Impersonal si-passive -- 4.4 Comments on Burzio's judgments on passive -- 4.5 Idioms and language registers -- Chapter 5. Si-constructions -- 5.1 Unaccusative, reflexive, si-passive constructions -- 5.2 Idiomatic si-constructions -- 5.3 Causative constructions -- 5.4 On some idiosyncratic properties of CAN idioms -- 5.5 The si-constructions on the fixed object -- Chapter 6. Adjectival passive -- Chapter 7. Subject idioms -- Chapter 8. Other syntactic constructions -- Chapter 9. Modification -- Chapter 10. Comparative constructions -- 10.1 The antiphrastic meaning -- 10.2 Variation -- 10.3 Flexibility -- Chapter 11. Derived nominals and VC compounds -- Chapter 12. Nominalizations and passive -- Chapter 13. Idioms with support verbs -- 13.1 The verb essere -- 13.2 The verb avere -- 13.3 The verb fare -- Chapter 14. Natural language processing -- 14.1 NooJ and Unitex -- 14.2 The annotation of idioms with NooJ -- Conclusions -- References -- Annex 1. The passive of tirare -- Annex 2. Idioms and "body-parts" nouns -- Annex 3. Classification and notations -- Index.

This study is devoted to the analysis of Italian idioms with either ordinary or support verbs (also called light verbs). The research focuses on the exhaustive description of idioms, and is based on their systematic classification according to the principles of the Lexicon-Grammar methodology developed by Maurice Gross (1975, 1979 and further). A thorough examination of the literature shows strong disagreement on the acceptability of some idiomatic constructions. For this reason, the Web was used as a corpus to verify judgments on the supposed ungrammatical constructions. This approach showed that idiomatic constructions which have always been considered ungrammatical are instead perfectly acceptable if contextualized. The results obtained include the following: passive is not a "special case" when it concerns idioms, and idiomatic constructions show the same complexity as non-idiomatic constructions.

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