VP idioms in Norwegian: A subconstructional approach

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https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2014.5

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This paper presents a brief overview of idiomatic expressions in the Norwegian LFG grammar NorGram and shows how the rich lexical information of the LFG grammar can be reused in an HPSG-like grammar with a radically different approach to alternating argument frames. Rather than accounting for idioms by means of special idiom lexical entries, which is the standard approach in LFG and HPSG, a constructional approach is taken where the verbs of the idioms are left underspecified with regard to whether they are idioms or not. A hierarchy of subconstruction types is assumed, which for each piece of evidence provided by the words and rules of the sentence, narrows down the possible frames of the verb to just one.

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2014-10-15

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Haugereid, Petter. 2014. VP idioms in Norwegian: A subconstructional approach. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 83–102. (doi:10.21248/hpsg.2014.5) (https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/813) (Accessed March 29, 2024.)