Processing verbs in German idioms: Evidence against the configuration hypothesis

Metaphor and Symbol

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 213-231

  Smolka, Eva ^a,b   Rabanus, Stefan ^c   Rösler, Frank ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549128042     PISSN: 10926488     EISSN: 15327868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10926480701357638     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Ágel, V. (2004) Phraseologismus als (valenz)syntaktischer Normalfall. Wortverbindungen-mehr oder weniger fest, pp. 65-86. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York
2. Baayen, R., Piepenbrock, R. and Van Rijn, H. (1993) The CELEX lexical database (on CD-ROM), Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
3. Bobrow, S. and Bell, S. (1973) On catching on to idiomatic expressions. Memory and Cognition, 1, pp. 343-346.
4. Burger, H. (2003) Phraseologie. Eine Einführung am Beispiel des Deutschen, Erich Schmidt, Berlin
5. Burger, H. (2004) Phraseologie-Kräuter und Rüben? Traditionen und Perspektiven der Forschung. Wortverbindungen-mehr oder weniger fest, pp. 19-40. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York
6. Cacciari, C. and Glucksberg, S. (1994) Understanding figurative language. Handbook of psycholinguistics, pp. 447-477. Academic Press, San Diego, CA
7. Cacciari, C. and Tabossi, P. (1988) The comprehension of idioms. Journal of Memory and anguage, 27, pp. 668-683.
8. Caillies, S. and Butcher, K. (2007) Processing of idiomatic expressions: Evidence for a new hybrid vew. Metaphor and Symbol, 2, pp. 79-108.
9. Cutting, J. and Bock, K. (1997) That's the way the cookie bounces: syntactic and semantic components of experimentally elicited idiom blends. Memory and Cognition, 25, pp. 57-71.
10. (2002) Duden Redewendungen: Wörterbuch der deutschen Idiomatik, 2nd ed. Dudenverlag, Mannheim
11. Frege, G. (1923) Logische Untersuchungen. Dritter Teil: Gedankengefüge. Beiträge zur Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus, 3, pp. 36-51.
12. Gansel, C. (1992) Semantik deutscher Verben in kognitionspsychologischer Sicht, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main
13. Gibbs, R. W. (1980) Spilling the beans on understanding and memory for idioms in conversation. Memory and Cognition, 8, pp. 149-156.
14. Gibbs, R. W. (1992) What do idioms really mean?. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, pp. 485-506.
15. Gibbs, R. (1994) Figurative thought and figurative language. Handbook of psycholinguistics, pp. 411-446. Academic Press, San Diego, CA
16. Gibbs, R. W. (2002) A new look at literal meanings in understanding what is said and implicated. Journal of Pragmatics, 34, pp. 457-486.
17. Gibbs, R. W., Bogdanovich, J. M. and Sykes, J. R., Barr, D. J. (1997) Metaphor in idiom comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 37, pp. 141-154.
18. Gibbs, R. W., Nayak, N. P. and Cutting, C. (1989) How to kick the bucket and not decompose: Analyzability and idiom processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 28, pp. 576-593.
19. Gibbs, R. W. and Nayak, N. P. (1989) Psycholinguistic studies on the syntactic behavior of idioms. Cognitive Psychology, 21, pp. 100-138.
20. Gibbs, R. W. and O'Brien, J. E. (1990) Idioms and mental imagery: The metaphorical motivation for idiomatic meaning. Cognition, 36, pp. 35-68.
21. Grice, H. P. (1975) Logic and conversation. Syntax and semantics, vol. 3: Speech acts, pp. 41-58. Academic, New York
22. Grice, H. P. (1978) Further notes on logic and conversation. Syntax and semantics, vol. 9: Pragmatics, pp. 113-127. Academic, New York
23. Hamblin, J. L. and Gibbs, R. W. (1999) Why you can't kick the bucket as you slowly die: Verbs in idiom comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 28, pp. 25-39.
24. Neely, J. H. (1991) Semantic priming effects in visual word recognition: A selective review of current findings and theories. Basic processes in reading, pp. 264-336. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ
25. Schindler, W. (1997) Methodologische Überlegungen zu idiomatischen Wortverbindungen und deren Abgrenzung von anderen phraseologischen Syntagmen. Methodologische Aspekte der Semantikforschung, pp. 267-282. Peter Lang, Frankfurt
26. Smolka, E., Zwitserlood, P. and Rösler, F. Stem access in regular and irregular inflection: Evidence from German participles. Journal of Memory and Language.
27. Sprenger, S., Levelt, W. and Kempen, G. (2006) Lexical access during the production of idiomatic phrases. Journal of Memory and Language, 54, pp. 161-184.
28. Swinney, D. and Cutler, A. (1979) The access and processing of idiomatic expressions. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 18, pp. 523-534.
29. Titone, D. A. and Connine, C. M. (1999) On the compositional and noncompositional nature of idiomatic expressions. Journal of Pragmatics, 31, pp. 1655-1674.