Aspectual mismatches in the interpretation of idioms: the view from AspP
Aspectual mismatches in the interpretation of idioms: the view from AspP

Summary/Abstract: The present paper is an attempt to uncover some of the (syntactic) properties of idioms that present aspects mismatches between their literal and idiomatic interpretation. The novelty value of the proposal lies in its syntactic rather than semantic or cognitive approach: whereas most accounts in the literature deal with this conundrum from a semantic and cognitive point of view, the present analysis provides a syntactic aspects account by relying on AspP.

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