Topic
Fixed expression
About: Fixed expression is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 18 publications have been published within this topic receiving 127 citations. The topic is also known as: expression.
Papers
1 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used hybrid models that combine statistics and linguistic nowledge to identify fixed expressions in Dutch, and found that the presence of certain determiner changes correlate with a potential for modification, albeit less than perfectly.
Abstract: This thesis originated from the need for a description of the linguistic behavior of Dutch fixed expressions in a computational model. This work addresses the following problems: (i) which criteria determine that an expression in language use has to be described as a fixed expression, (ii) how (automatic) identification models can capture such criteria and (iii) how to predict whether such expressions allow variation and modification. The properties and the behavior of fixed expressions are still poorly understood. The type and number of irregularities vary across expressions. The author argues that the idiosyncratic behavior affecting one or more levels of linguistic analysis suffices to establish that an expression qualifies as a fixed expression. To identify fixed expressions, Villada Moiron proposes the use of hybrid models that combine statistics and linguistic nowledge. In order to be successful, the identification models need to capture irregularities that affect the morphology, syntactic distribution and meaning, in addition to the lexical associations between the word components. To establish the potential for variation and modification, a corpus-based method extracts relevant evidence from anannotated corpus. The evidence allows us distinguish various types of support verb constructions. Villada Moiron observes that the presence of certain determiner changes correlate with a potential for modification, albeit less than perfectly. The methods need to be tested further with other types of fixed expressions but it seems that their design features are appropriate for the task. Such methods are crucial to improve the description of fixed expressions in lexical and computational resources.
88 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a thorough study of verbal set phrases in Spanish was conducted, which was developed to observe this feature and for which a database of 15,300 expressions was used.
Abstract: It has been traditionally believed that the main characteristic of set phrases is precisely their fixed nature. This paper gathers the results of a thorough study of verbal set phrases in Spanish, which was developed to observe this feature and for which a database of 15,300 expressions was used. It is worth noticing that, even if these phrases are fixed to different degrees, a considerable amount of them allow modifications in some of their components which do not alter the global meaning.
25 citations
6 Mar 2014
TL;DR: In this article, three types of syntagmatic associations are distinguished in the domain of DMs: the free discursive co-occurrence, the fixed expression and the semi-fixed expression.
Abstract: The question of the syntagmatic combinatorics of words belonging to the classes commonly addressed by grammatical tradition (such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) has been a subject of sustained reflection for several decades. The situation is different for discourse markers (DMs), which have gained substantial interest only recently (toward the end of the 1990s). This article takes as its starting point the idea that DMs are subject to the same types of syntagmatic associations as words belonging to the "ordinary" classes. By analogy with these classes, three types of syntagmatic associations are distinguished in the domain of DMs: the free discursive co-occurrence, the fixed expression (or discursive locution), and the semi-fixed expression (or discursive collocation). Of these types of word associations, the semi-fixed expression proves the most original and the most delicate to examine. It is therefore spe-cifically analyzed in this text, namely through a study of one marker in particular: don ([dɔ]).
17 citations
10 Dec 2020
TL;DR: This article showed that the Finnish expression se että "it (is) that" is a fixed projective element in talkin-interaction both on its own and with collocating elements.
Abstract: This chapter shows that the Finnish expression se että ‘it (is) that’, consisting of a demonstrative followed by a complementizer, is a fixed projective element in talkin-interaction both on its own and with collocating elements. It shares features with projector phrases identified for other languages: it is used both to prepare the addressee for the nature of the upcoming and to underline the upcoming as central to the ongoing interaction. The analysis of se että having grammaticized into a projector phrase is supported by prosodic evidence: the two elements are most often produced as one prosodic word. The findings support the idea that se että emerges in interaction with a fixed form rather than being generated by a syntactic rule. 1 Authorship is equally shared. We thank the anonymous referees and the series editor as well as Yoshi Ono for their invaluable comments which have improved our contribution greatly. Remaining shortcomings are of course our responsibility. We are also grateful to the participants of the end symposium of the project “The Question of Units in Language and Interaction” held in Helsinki in 2016, where we first presented this study.
4 citations
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