Keyword

idioms

Description: Conventional expressions whose overall meanings are not fully predictable from the meanings of their individual words, studied in linguistics and language learning.

Primary topic: Linguistic research and analysis (21%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q184511

OpenAlex ID: keywords/idioms

Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality

2013 · Mikolov, Tomas, Sutskever, Ilya, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 24,515

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Metaphor: A Practical Introduction

2002 · Zoltán Kövecses, Réka Benczes · 3,788

The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding

1994 · Raymond W. Gibbs · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2,990

Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of Let Alone

1988 · Charles J. Fillmore, Paul Kay, et al. · Language · 2,917

Formulaic Language and the Lexicon

2002 · Alison Wray · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2,872

The architecture of the language faculty . By Ray Jackendoff. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 262. Paper $20.00.

1998 · Jean Aitchison · Language · 1,991

Multiword Expressions: A Pain in the Neck for NLP

2002 · Ivan A. Sag, Timothy Baldwin, et al. · Lecture notes in computer science · 1,025

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects

2000 · Douglas C. Schmidt, Michael Stal, et al. · 996

Morphological and semantic regularities in the lexicon

1975 · Ray Jackendoff · Language · 886

Understanding Figurative Language

2001 · Sam Glucksberg · Oxford University Press eBooks · 872

Embodiment of abstract concepts: Good and bad in right- and left-handers.

2009 · Daniel Casasanto · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 871

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The cognitive model of anger inherent in American English

1987 · George Lakoff, Zoltán Kövecses · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 771

The access and processing of idiomatic expressions

1979 · David A. Swinney, Anne Cutler · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 732

A Probabilistic Model of Lexical and Syntactic Access and Disambiguation

1996 · D Jurafsky · Cognitive Science · 714

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Idioms

1994 · Geoffrey Nunberg, Ivan A. Sag, et al. · Language · 698

The New Oxford Dictionary of English

1998 · Judy Pearshall · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 694

Formulaic Sequences: Are They Processed More Quickly than Nonformulaic Language by Native and Nonnative Speakers?

2007 · Kathy Conklin, Norbert Schmitt · Applied Linguistics · 654

The statistics of word cooccurrences : word pairs and collocations

2005 · Evert, Stefan · OPUS Publication Server of the University of Stuttgart (University of Stuttgart) · 636

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Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar

2003 · Stephen Matthews, Virginia Yip · Routledge eBooks · 623

Understanding figurative language: from metaphors to idioms

2002 · Choice Reviews Online · 600

Formulaic sequences in second language teaching: principle and practice

2000 · A Wray · Applied Linguistics · 597

Phraseology: Theory, analysis, and applications . Ed. by Anthony P. Cowie (Oxford studies in lexicography and lexicology.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 258.

2000 · Koenraad Kuiper · Language · 583

Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics

1998 · Michael McCarthy · 580

Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-Based Approach

1998 · Rosamund Moon · 579

On verbal irony

1992 · Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber · Lingua · 577

Works count: 45,610

Citation count: 157,800