License to COLL: How to bind bound words and readings to their contexts

In this contribution we propose a new module for handling idioms anddistributional idiosyncrasies. Based on the concept by Richter/Sailer (1999)the new feature COLL (context of lexical licensing) plays the central role inour approach. We provide a way to handle decomposable and nondecomposableidioms and idioms containing bound words. Our module guarantees theco-occurrence of all idiom parts and of bound word and licensing context,respectively. A prerequisite for our analysis is a means to select forparticular elements in the lexicon. We introduce another feature, LISTEME,which gives each lexical item its unique identifier andmakes it possible toselect for a particular lexical word or phrase. Finally, we compare ourproposal with alternative approaches and give some ideas regarding furtherapplications beyond idiomaticity.