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Generative Grammar Analysis

Generative Grammar Analysis

Introduction

The Frege's principle requires that meaning of complex expressions such as idioms should involve understanding of their complex structure and meaning of their constituents. The constituents are generally referred to a word or phrase or even clause which makes up the larger grammatical construction (Carter, 2005). In generative grammar, the word constituents are related with the lexical entries which states that for complete understanding of the words in the idioms, one should looks at their information in dictionary. Here we will be going to examine the idiom “cat got your tongue”. Cat got your tongue ...