ON THE SYSTEMATIC ASPECT OF IDIOMS Martha
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ON THE SYSTEMATIC ASPECT OF IDIOMS Martha McGinnis University of Calgary It has traditionally been assumed that the meaning of some or all phrasal idioms is noncompositional. However, I will argue here that the aspectual meaning of idioms is completely systematic: there are no special aspectual restrictions on idioms, and moreover, the aspect of an idiom is compositional, combining the aspectual properties of its syntactic constituents in the usual way. I will show that this observation supports the theory of Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz 1993).
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