(thanks to Timm Lichte for this summary)
The discussion started by looking at light-verb constructions:
- verb event and noun event: can they different?
(ex) I quickly took a slow walk.
(ex) I quickly walked slowly.
(ex) I didn't take the/my usual walk. != I usually don't walk.
- constraints on the combination of light-verb and noun?
- semantic/predictable
- lexical/arbitrary
(ex) take a walk/#kiss
(ex) pay attention/visit/respect
Terminology was made clear: difference between transparent and decomposable
- transparent: literal and idiomatic meaning available
- decomposable: just the idiomatic meaning
Other aspects which have been mentioned:
- degrees of decomposability
- hierarchy of tests (in terms decomposability)?
- passivization > internal modification > pronominalization >
topicalization > relative clause formation > isolated occurrence of parts of MWE
- does passivization belong here? Language-specific?
- general connection to metaphorical speech?
- corpora:
- is decomposability reflected in the statistics?
- as a tool for validation?
- compositional distributional semantics useful?
- psycholinguistic work
- Could the results be useful/relevant?
- WG2?
- obstacles: different grouping of MWE; unconclusive results or difficult to see what they mean for us.
Finally, the need to invite people to participate in these debates have been pointed out.