Idiomatic Expressions and Grammatical Constructions

Paul Kay is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and adjunct professor of linguistics at Stanford University. Laura Michaelis is professor of linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Science. She was a founding editor of the Cambridge University Press journal Language and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language and Cognitive Science. Ivan A. Sag (1949–2013) was professor of linguistics at Stanford University. He was the author of Syntactic Theory, 2nd Edition, German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Interrogative Investigations, Sign-Based Construction Grammar, and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Dan Flickinger was a senior research associate at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University and coeditor of Collected Papers of Martin Kay.

• ContentsPreface vii1 A Lexical Theory of Phrasal Idioms 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Analysis of Syntactically Flexible Expressions 61.3 The Analysis of Semi-Fixed Expressions 131.4 Super-Flexible Idioms 211.5 Locality and Idiomaticity 411.6 Locality 561.7 Idiom Words Governed by Non-Idiom Predicators 621.8 Conclusion 642 Partial Inversion in English 682.1 Uniformity and diversity in the split subject familyof constructions: the basic data 732.2 Sign-Based Construction Grammar 932.3 Agreement 962.4 The Split Subject Construction 1012.5 Oblique Inversion (OI) 1072.6 Presentational there 1362.7 Deictic Inversion 1382.8 Existential There 1452.9 Reversed Specficational be (RS-be) 1562.10 Conclusion 1593 Copy Raising as a Lexical Rule 1643.1 Expletives 1683.2 Analysis of Copy Raising 1723.3 Conclusion 178References 180Name Index 190Subject Index 193