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IDIOMATICITY AND TERMINOLOGY: A MULTI‐DIMENSIONAL DESCRIPTIVE MODEL
Author(s) -
Barkema Henk
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9582.1996.tb00347.x
Subject(s) - terminology , expression (computer science) , syntax , computer science , linguistics , flexibility (engineering) , set (abstract data type) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , statistics , programming language , philosophy
Abstract. In this article we discuss the traditional terminology for idioms and other lexicalised expressions. We claim that it is inadequate for accurate, explicit and detailed descriptions of the various linguistic characteristics of expressions. As an alternative, we introduce a well‐defined model with which three different types of linguistic characteristics can be captured with a small set of labels: composition‐ality, collocability and flexibility. What is new in our approach is that a set of labels is given to one expression instead of only one label. Each of these either indicates how the expression scores on a given scale or indicates additional characteristics of the expression (e.g. idiosyncratic syntax). In an appendix we provide an inventory of terms discussed in this article, with their definitions.