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Idiomatic Expressions: History
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Idiomatic expressions are conventionalized multiword units whose meanings cannot always be fully derived from the literal meanings of their individual components or from the grammatical rules governing their combination [1][2]. They vary in semantic transparency, syntactic flexibility, and lexical fixedness, ranging from relatively transparent expressions to highly non-compositional phrases whose interpretations depend on established linguistic conventions [1][2]. Idiomatic expressions are examined in relation to phraseology, lexical semantics, and the conventionalized patterns through which speakers encode and interpret meaning in a language.

  • Idiomaticity
  • Phraseology
  • Lexical semantics
  • Non-compositional meaning

References

  1. Geoffrey Nunberg; Ivan A. Sag; Thomas Wasow; Idioms. Language 1994, 70, 491-538, 10.2307/416483.
  2. Mansoor Ganji; The Best Way to Teach Phrasal Verbs: Translation, Sentential Contextualization or Metaphorical Conceptualization?. Theory Pract. Lang. Stud. 2011, 1, 1497-1506, 10.4304/tpls.1.11.1497-1506.
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