Foreign MWEs
Overview
Multiword expressions may be borrowed wholesale from another language. They tend to be completely fixed.
Examples
- et cetera
- coup d’état
- déjà vu
Unaware of any evidence that these can ever be split or internally modified, we treat these as multiword lexical items:
The | nation | is | so | prone | to | coup | d'état | -s | that | each | of | them | feels | like | a | déjà | vu | . |
N+sg -pl | NP+pl\N+sg | NP+sg/N-pl | N+sg -pl | |||||||||||||||
NP+pl< | NP+sg> |
(I am not sure about the particulars of the categories. - Nathan)