Thematic Composition and Idiom Variation
The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) has been studied to retrieve variant forms of semantically decomposable idioms that have no thematic composition for the purpose of determining whether thematic composition is a necessary criterion for idiom variation as claimed by Horn (2003). The...
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| description | The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) has been studied to retrieve variant forms of semantically decomposable idioms that have no thematic composition for the purpose of determining whether thematic composition is a necessary criterion for idiom variation as claimed by Horn (2003). The syntactic variants searched for include passive, raising, tough-movement, relative clauses and wh-questions. Horn’s (2003) hypothesis is not fully confirmed, as some variation has been found. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-13040290218e49f3ae6c7495390e4bdd2022-12-22T02:50:18ZengSciendoRomanian Journal of English Studies1584-37342286-04282017-11-01141495510.1515/rjes-2017-0007rjes-2017-0007Thematic Composition and Idiom VariationCserép Attila0University of Debrecen, Debrecen, HungaryThe Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) has been studied to retrieve variant forms of semantically decomposable idioms that have no thematic composition for the purpose of determining whether thematic composition is a necessary criterion for idiom variation as claimed by Horn (2003). The syntactic variants searched for include passive, raising, tough-movement, relative clauses and wh-questions. Horn’s (2003) hypothesis is not fully confirmed, as some variation has been found.https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2017-0007decomposabilityidiomssyntactic variationthematic composition |
| spellingShingle | Cserép Attila Thematic Composition and Idiom Variation Romanian Journal of English Studies decomposability idioms syntactic variation thematic composition |
| title | Thematic Composition and Idiom Variation |
| title_full | Thematic Composition and Idiom Variation |
| title_fullStr | Thematic Composition and Idiom Variation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thematic Composition and Idiom Variation |
| title_short | Thematic Composition and Idiom Variation |
| title_sort | thematic composition and idiom variation |
| topic | decomposability idioms syntactic variation thematic composition |
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