Smolka, Eva
Schulte im Walde, Sabine
2020-02-28
<p>Multiword expressions (MWEs), such as noun compounds (such as <em>nickname</em> in English, and <em>Ohrwurm</em> in German), complex verbs (such as <em>give up</em> in English, and <em>aufgeben</em> in German) and idioms (such as <em>break the ice</em> in English, and <em>das Eis brechen</em> in German), may be interpreted literally but often undergo meaning shifts with respect to their constituents. Theoretical, psycholinguistic as well as computational linguistic research remain puzzled by when and how MWEs receive literal vs. meaning-shifted interpretations, what the contributions of the MWE constituents are to the degree of semantic transparency (i.e., meaning compositionality) of the MWE, and how literal vs. meaning-shifted MWEs are processed and computed.</p>
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This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary selection of six papers on recent findings across linguistic, psycholinguistic, corpus-based and computational research fields and perspectives, discussing the interaction of constituent properties and MWE meanings, and how MWE constituents contribute to the processing and representation of MWEs. The collection is based on a workshop at the 2017 annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) that took place at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany.</p>
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The role of constituents in multiword expressions: An interdisciplinary, cross-lingual perspective
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