LINGUIST List 17.1106
Wed Apr 12 2006
Diss: Semantics/Syntax: Soehn: 'Über Bärendienste un...'
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1. Jan-Philipp
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Über Bärendienste und erstaunte Bauklötze -- Idiome ohne freie Lesart in der HPSG
Message 1: Über Bärendienste und erstaunte Bauklötze -- Idiome ohne freie Lesart in der HPSG
Date: 11-Apr-2006
From: Jan-Philipp Soehn <jp.soehnuni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: Über Bärendienste und erstaunte Bauklötze -- Idiome ohne freie Lesart in der HPSG
Institution: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Program: Department of German Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2006
Author: Jan-Philipp Soehn
Dissertation Title: Über Bärendienste und erstaunte Bauklötze -- Idiome ohne freie Lesart in der HPSG
Linguistic Field(s):
Semantics
Syntax
Subject Language(s): German, Standard (deu)
Dissertation Director:
Harald Burger
Frank Richter
Christine Römer
Dissertation Abstract:
In this thesis, I propose a syntactic description of verbal idiomaticexpressions, such as jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen (to do adisservice to so.), Bauklötze staunen (to be flabbergasted) or jemandenübers Ohr hauen (to take so. for a ride).
Morphological, syntactic, semantic and cognitive characteristics ofidiomatic expressions are discussed, focusing on idioms without freereadings. The main thrust of the analysis is to sketch lexical entries fordecomposable and non-decomposable idioms.
The analysis is based empirically on a compilation of examples andquotations taken from newspaper corpora. This compilation is available onCD (together with the book), as well as online.
The architecture of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Pollard and Sag1994) is extended with a model-theoretic semantics (LRS, Richter and Sailer2004) and a collocation module is introduced.
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