%0 Journal Article
%T On Idiom Parts and their Contexts
%A Soehn
%A Jan-Philipp
%J Linguistik Online
%D 2006
%I University of Bern
%X This article examines idiomatic expressions as sources of both regularity and irregularity in language. Some morphological, lexical, syntactical, and semantical characteristics of idioms are discussed. It is shown how a lexical licensing mechanism, which is formulated within a formal grammar framework, can deal with the data. After that, this proposal is extended to the phenomenon of negative polarity.
%K Irregularity
%K Regularity
%K HPSG
%K Idioms
%K Bound Words
%K Polarity Items
%U http://linguistik-online.com/27_06/soehn.pdf