This book explores the pragmatics of specialized language with a focus on multiword terms, complex phrases characterized by sequences of nouns or adjectives who

Recently, the investigation of word meaning in utterances has connected two different fields: lexical semantics and pragmatics. A new linguistic discipline, nam

Both compounds and multi-word expressions are complex lexical units, made up of at least two constituents. The most basic difference is that the former are morp

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a challenge for both the natural language applications and the linguistic theory because they often defy the application of the

For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a "basic" order of subject and object relative