Regularities in the Behaviour of Russian Phrasal Idioms

Contents: Concept of compositionality - Generative accounts of idioms - Morphosyntactic features of idiom constituents - Aspectual properties of Russian phrasal idioms: Aspectual pairs/Aspectual morphology/Situational aspect/Semantic tests - Argument structure of phrasal idioms: Domain of idiom formation/Thematic hierarchy/Animacy/Variations in argument structure/Word order variation - Frozenness hierarchy: Functional projections/Lexical representation of idioms - Syntactic flexibility of idioms - Negation in phrasal idioms - Discourse interpretation of phrasal idioms.