• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.417-444
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• 2007

Canonical idioms are in general syntactically opaque and semantically non-compositional. However, there also exist many idioms whose component parts are rather morpho-syntactically transparent and semantically decomposable. This paper identifies two types of Korean idioms and review their basic properties. Based on these empirical studies, the paper then proposes a constraint-based approach that can allow us to process these two different types of idioms.