final questions and answers
for Dan Sanford’s 490/590 seminar: Formulaic Language.
i had to pick two out of these four:
What is the difference, with respect to idioms, between compositionality and conventionality? Why is it a mistake to confuse the two?
How are the questions of whether or not idioms are compositional, and whether or not they’re metaphorical, related?
Nunberg, [...]