Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Figures XIII
5. List of Tables XV
6. List of Abbreviations XVII
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: Idioms, Ambiguity, and the Role of Context: State of the Art
9. Introduction 11
10. 1 Idioms: Deriving a Working Definition 12
11. 2 The Ambiguity Model and the Analysis of Idioms 26
12. 3 Ambiguity and Context 53
13. Part II: Ambiguous Idioms in Context: A Theoretical Contribution
14. Introduction 81
15. 4 Idioms in Context: Four Types of Ambiguity Use 83
16. 5 TInCAP: A Corpus for Annotating Ambiguity 92
17. 6 Annotation of Idioms in Literary Texts with TInCAP 120
18. Part III: Ambiguous Idioms in Context: Exemplary Analyses
19. Introduction 139
20. 7 Idioms in Attested Contexts 140
21. 8 Compiling a Corpus 143
22. 9 Patterns of Ambiguous Use of Idioms 155
23. Conclusion and Outlook 193
24. Works Cited 197
25. Appendix: Corpus 209
26. Abstract 307
27. Résumé 309
28. Index 311