Chapter 7. Subject idioms

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. Ambiguity and creativity 5
5. Chapter 2. Compositionality and syntactic productivity 15
6. Chapter 3. The Lexicon-Grammar of Italian idioms 29
7. Chapter 4. Passive 37
8. Chapter 5. Si -constructions 51
9. Chapter 6. Adjectival passive 69
10. Chapter 7. Subject idioms 73
11. Chapter 8. Other syntactic constructions 85
12. Chapter 9. Modification 89
13. Chapter 10. Comparative constructions 99
14. Chapter 11. Derived nominals and VC compounds 113
15. Chapter 12. Nominalizations and passive 119
16. Chapter 13. Idioms with support verbs 125
17. Chapter 14. Natural language processing 139
18. Conclusions 147
19. References 149
20. Annex 1. The passive of tirare 159
21. Annex 2: Idioms and "body-parts" nouns 161
22. Annex 3: Classification and notations 209
23. Index 257