@inbook{43c33aaadd674809a03fb0f2ec012009,
title = "Producing figurative meanings: the case of idioms",
abstract = "This paper explores the hypothesis that definiteness marking can be used as a tool for the speaker to trigger idiomaticity. In an experiment, we asked participants to produce the content of newly created figurative expressions. The results showed that the manipulation of a single parameter, definiteness marking, gave rise to a difference in the type of content participants produced for the novel figurative expressions. In particular, figurative expressions that contained a pragmatically unlicensed definite article gave rise to greater idiomaticity than expressions that contained a (licensed) indefinite article. Violating the felicity conditions on the use of a definite article is therefore one way for the speaker to produce figuration.",
keywords = "figurative expressions, idiomaticity, definiteness marking, Dutch",
author = "Loes Koring",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1075/ftl.10.09kor",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027208033",
series = "Figurative Thought and Language",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "237–262",
editor = "John Barnden and Andrew Gargett",
booktitle = "Producing figurative expression",
address = "Netherlands",
}