'Von großen Böcken und einer Menge Staub' - Zur maschinellen Verarbeitung modifizierter Idiome mit semantisch-autonomen Komponenten

In the following we deal with a special type of phrasal idiom, called gurative-compositional idiom. Idioms of this class have semantically autonomous components that shows a certain degree of independence. We propose an adequate manner of formal semantic representation of their idiomatic meaning: we map the referents of the semantically autonomous components into the formal representation. The advantage of our approach will be shown by the means of Discourse Representation Theory (DRT). Furthermore we show an implemented mechanism based on-calculus and DRT, which allows to process sentences in which a combination of both literal and gurative language use occurs.