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On syntactic and semantic decomposition of an idio
- Authors: Chernyakova YS1
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- Moscow Region State Institute of Humanities and Social Studies
- Issue: No 1 (2011)
- Pages: 33-37
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/7189
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The metaphoric nature of an idiom accounts the unpredictability of the global meaning of the whole from, the literal meanings of the constituent parts and results in its usage as a lexical expressive means in fiction. Syntactic and semantic flexibility of idioms is confirmed by various kinds of their deformations.
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Y S Chernyakova
Moscow Region State Institute of Humanities and Social Studies
Email: y-chernyakova@mail.ru
Кафедра английского языка; Московский государственный областной социально-гуманитарный институт; Moscow Region State Institute of Humanities and Social Studies
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