| Lemma | half-assimilated transparent idiom |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Clark & Clark (2004) |
| Titolo | WHEN NOUNS SURFACE AS VERBS |
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| Citazioni | HALF-ASSIMILATED TRANSPARENT IDIOMS. Some verbs become transparent idioms for one group of speakers, but remain innovations for everyone else. "Key in the data", for example, appears to be idiomatic among computerniks [...] but it is still perceived as an innovation by the rest of us. |