idiomatic meaning
in
English. That is, its meaning is not predictable from the integrated meanings of the
individual words. A non-native speaker of English who has not learnt the ‘special’
idiomatic meaning will only be able to interpret example (6) literally. Native
speakers of English, on the other hand, while also being able to interpret the
sentence literally, often cannot avoid the idiomatic meaning ‘he died’. Of course,
whether a literal versus an idiomatic interpretation is accessed depends on the
situation or
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