# Idiom: Idiomatic Expressions

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        abstract Idiom = Cat ** {

This module defines constructions that are formed in fixed ways, often different even in closely related languages.

          fun
            ImpersCl  : VP -> Cl ;        -- it rains
            GenericCl : VP -> Cl ;        -- one sleeps

            CleftNP   : NP  -> RS -> Cl ; -- it is you who did it
            CleftAdv  : Adv -> S  -> Cl ; -- it is yesterday she arrived

            ExistNP   : NP -> Cl ;        -- there is a house
            ExistIP   : IP -> QCl ;       -- which houses are there

            ProgrVP   : VP -> VP ;        -- be sleeping

            ImpPl1    : VP -> Utt ;       -- let's go

        }