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ISBN: | 9789027293763 9027293767 9789027223708 902722370X 1282156063 9781282156067 9786612156069 6612156066 902722370X
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Notes: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Basel, 2003. Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into idiomatic creativity - the complex cognitive processing and representation of these heterogeneous linguistic constructions. Idiomatic creativity therefore raises two challenging questions: What are the cognitive mechanisms that underlie and shape idiom-representation? How do these mechanisms define th.
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Other form: | Print version: Langlotz, Andreas. Idiomatic creativity. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2006
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