Semi-compositional constructions are common noun + verb combinations where the noun functions as the semantic head of the construction, but the syntactic head is the verb. Their structure is similar to productive or idiomatic noun + verb combinations, they nevertheless behave differently from those two classes with respect to their syntax and semantics. These features make it difficult to offer a linguistically apt analysis that is able to give an account of their special features and natural language processing (NLP) applications also encounter problems when dealing with them. The...