Idiom storage and the lexicon

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IDIOM STORAGE AND THE
LEXICON
TAL SILON I
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
JULIA HORVATH
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
HADAR KLUNOVER
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
KEN WEXLER
MIT

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Introductio
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• The Word vs. Root
•Questions.
• What kind of entries make
up the mental lexicon?
•Does
the lexicon include words?
•Or is it a storehouse of
more basic elements, such
as roots,
whether consonantal roots
as in Semitic languages or
roots in the wider sense, as
argued for other languages?
This paper focuses on the lexical part of the faculty of language. It has
to do with a couple of fundamental related issues that have exercised
extensive controversies in respect to the lexical component.These
studies show that the input to certain mor-phological processes is
necessarily a word and not a root. Assuming that these morphological
processes occur in the lexicon, they conclude that the lexical
component must contain words.

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This study of thematic derivation of verbs and adjectives, that is, the
derivation setting their semantic and syntactic valence, their diathesis, and
not their morphophonological derivation.It reports an experiment that tests
the effect of diathesis on speakers’ perception of idiom distribution. Idioms, as
is well-known, have a dual nature.

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IDIOMS: BACKGROUND
As was mentioned above, idioms exhibit an
inherent duality.
On the one hand,they have syntactic structure similar to phrases built by the syntactic component.
On the other hand, they have conventionalized meaning that cannot be predicted
by semantic composition. This means that they must be stored.Since they indeed contain a structural
representation, it raises the question of how they are to be stored.
However, before we discuss the possible options for storage of idioms, we need to realistically
express our empirical domain.

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Research questions
In light of the above results, we set out to reexamine the distribution
(uniqueness
vs. sharing) of idioms across diatheses – using a different technique – and
reevaluate its theoretical consequences. The empirical question we addressed
was
whether the diathesis heading the idiom affects speakers’ evaluation as to
whether
the corresponding transitive version of this idiom (i.e. the corresponding idiom
headed by the transitive alternant) exists. We therefore limited ourselves to the
following three nontransitive diatheses: verbal passives, adjectival passives
and
unaccusatives.

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