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...
Main Author: | Cserép Attila |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2017-11-01
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Series: | Romanian Journal of English Studies |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2017-0007 |
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