Journal Article10.1017/s0261444800014622
Research in the supporting sciences
TL;DR: The realm of idiomaticity in a language includes a great deal that is productive, highly structured, and worthy of serious grammatical investigation.
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Abstract: Through the detailed investigation of the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of one grammatical construction, that containing the conjunction 'let alone', the view is explored that the realm of idiomaticity in a language includes a great deal that is productive, highly structured, and worthy of serious grammatical investigation. It is suggested that an explanatory model of grammar will include principles whereby a language can associate semantic and pragmatic interpretation principles with syntactic configurations larger and more complex than those definable by means of single phrase structure rules.
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