This 400-page book presents the nine distinct physiological, psychological and meta-physical Constituents that overlap each other and form a clear structure of our psyche shown in the form of an enneagram. Because this nine-pointed figure presents a complete cycle, it is used throughout these Teachings to disclose the Nine Constituents across the Protoanalytical Theory and Method and the three Laws of Trialectics. The Teachings of the Constituents are an elemental matrix to cognize the totality of these nine dis¬tinct structures of our psyche.

Multiword expressions (MWEs), such as noun compounds (e.g. nickname in English, and Ohrwurm in German), complex verbs (e.g. give up in English, and aufgeben in German) and idioms (e.g. break the ice in English, and das Eis brechen in German), may be interpreted literally but often undergo meaning shifts with respect to their constituents. Theoretical, psycholinguistic as well as computational linguistic research remain puzzled by when and how MWEs receive literal vs. meaning-shifted interpretations, what the contributions of the MWE constituents are to the degree of semantic transparency (i.e., meaning compositionality) of the MWE, and how literal vs. meaning-shifted MWEs are processed and computed. This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary selection of seven papers on recent findings across linguistic, psycholinguistic, corpus-based and computational research fields and perspectives, discussing the interaction of constituent properties and MWE meanings, and how MWE constituents contribute to the processing and representation of MWEs. The collection is based on a workshop at the 2017 annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) that took place at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany