• DOI:10.1162/LING_a_00012
Corpus ID: 57567192

Ditransitive Asymmetries and a Theory of Idiom Formation

@article{Bruening2010DitransitiveAA,
  title={Ditransitive Asymmetries and a Theory of Idiom Formation},
  author={Benjamin Bruening},
  journal={Linguistic Inquiry},
  year={2010},
  volume={41},
  pages={519-562}
}

Benjamin Bruening

Published 2010

Mathematics

Linguistic Inquiry

This article discusses three asymmetries in ditransitivesquantifier scope, nominalizations, and idiomsand argues that an asymmetric theory like that advocated by Marantz (1993) and Bruening (2001) is correct. A symmetric theory like that proposed by Harley (1997, 2002) cannot account for the asymmetries. The article also proposes a complete theory of idiom formation based on selection. It also proposes a formal semantics for double object constructions that includes a mechanism for composing… CONTINUE READING

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