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Constraints to Mechanisms of Idiom Modification

The paper examines the set of optimality and governing principles designed by FAUCONNIER and TURNER (1998, 2002) for defining relations within conceptual integration networks, and tests their applicability to mechanisms of idiom modification. The principles of integration, topology, web, unpacking, good reason, and metonymic tightening are tested on selected idiom modification examples, further examined for a set of vital relations (change, identity, time, space, cause &effect, part-whole, representation, role, analogy, disanalogy, property, similarity, category, intentionality, and uniqueness). It is argued that both vital relations and governing principles (compression, topology, pattern completion, integration, maximization of vital relations, intensification of vital relations, web, unpacking, relevance/good reason, metonymic tightening, and recursion) apply to, and can account for mechanisms of idiom modifications.

idiom modification, conceptual integration theory, principles and constraints of idiom modification

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