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Andreas Langlotz - Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-Linguistic Model of Idiom-Representation And Idiom-Variation in English
Posted: September 17th, 2008, 5:25am CEST

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This book addresses a central problem in phraseological and linguistic analysis. The creative structure and the creative use of idioms. Let me therefore start creatively, with a highly speculative metaphorical hypothesis: idioms are to linguists and language users what the Cheshire cat is to Alice. Idioms are peculiar linguistic constructions that have raised many eyebrows in linguistics and often confuse newcomers to a language. Indeed, the e...