Animal idioms are widespread in daily life; they have become inextricably linked to human existence and language. Additionally, acquired additional attributive connotative meanings – which differ from one culture another - addition their literal lexical meanings. not well-investigated, especially a pragmatic point of view. These set expressions vary language as well. Hence, this paper examines ...

In this work we carried out an idiom type identification task on a set of 90 Italian V-NP and V-PP constructions comprising both idioms and non-idioms. Lexical variants were generated from these expressions by replacing their components with semantically related words extracted distributionally and from the Italian section of MultiWordNet. Idiomatic phrases turned out to be less similar to thei...

Figurative language poses a serious challenge to NLP systems. The use of idiomatic and metaphoric expressions is not only extremely widespread in natural language; many figurative expressions, in particular idioms, also behave idiosyncratically. These idiosyncrasies are not restricted to a non-compositional meaning but often also extend to syntactic properties, selectional preferences etc. To d...

To investigate whether idiom production was vulnerable to age-related difficulties, we asked 40 younger (ages 18-30) and 40 older healthy adults (ages 60-85) to produce idiomatic expressions in a story-completion task. Younger adults produced significantly more correct idiom responses (73%) than did older adults (60%). When older adults generated partially correct responses, they were less like...

This study covered the idiomatic expressions used by TikTok content creators. Finding out meaning, characteristic, and contributions of for English teaching are goals this study. In 12 videos, researcher discovered 54 idioms, which writer has examined. The methodology was qualitative research. study's data sources were terms in that creators addressed. nonhuman instrument is a smartphone, its h...

Some expressions can be ambiguous between idiomatic and literal interpretations depending on the context they occur in, e.g., sales hit the roof vs. hit the roof of the car. We present a novel method of classifying whether a given instance is literal or idiomatic, focusing on verb-noun constructions. We report state-of-the-art results on this task using an approach based on the hypothesis that ...

We present two collections of lexical items with idiosyncratic distribution. The collections document the behavior of German and English bound words (BW, such as English headway), i.e. words which can only occur in one expression (make headway). BWs are a problem for both general and idiomatic dictionaries since it is unclear whether they have an independent lexical status and to what extent th...

Although some multiword expressions (MWEs) like How do you do? have exclusively idiomatic meaning, other MWEtypes like the phrase kick the bucket may be idiomatic or literal depending on context. The recently developed OpenMWE corpus provides the largest freely available collection of annotated MWE-tokens suitable for supervised classification, but so far its potential has only been superficial...

Optimally, a translated text should preserve information while maintaining the writing style of the original. When this is not possible, as is often the case with figurative speech, a common practice is to simplify and make explicit the implications. However, in our investigations of translations from English to another language, English-to-Chinese texts were often found to include idiomatic ex...