It can be shown that the semantic specialization of idioms is a matter of degree, and that semantic interpretation is not just a question of bottom-up compositionality or literal-to-figurative transfer: the reinterpretation processes that can be observed in idioms point to the existence of top-down and figurative-to-literal interpretations.
Published on 31/03/95
Accepted on 31/03/95
Submitted on 31/03/95
Volume 10, Issue 1, 1995
DOI: 10.7203/caplletra.18.7383
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license
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