НЯКОИ НАБЛЮДЕНИЯ ВЪРХУ ЛЕКСИКАЛНАТА ВАРИАНТНОСТ НА ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЗМА ИМАМ КОЗ В РЪКАВА В БЪЛГАРСКАТА ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЯ
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE LEXICAL VARIATION WITHIN THE PHRASEOLOGICAL UNIT ИМАМ КОЗ В РЪКАВА IN BULGARIAN PHRASEOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The present text discusses the lexical variation of the phraseological unit имам коз в ръкава in the Bulgarian phraseological system. That idiom is attested in many languages and in Bulgarian phraseology functions as a calque. It belongs to the group of idioms representing the idea for life as a gambling game. Three main types of lexical transformation within the idiom are observed: variation by substituting the verb имам, by substitution of lexical element коз and lexical variation by insertion. The variation is commonly based on substitution of the near-synonymous lexical elements and elements associatively connected. But there are some restrictions described in the analysis. The verb and the noun may also co-vary and that double lexical substitution is attested very often. The variation by lexical insertion within the idiom имам коз в ръкава leаds to variants where the adjective modifier (силен, скрит) does not change the idiom semantics, but intensifies the meaning. In the actual utterances lexical variation is not separable from the other type of phraseological modification - morphological, syntactic, they co-occur in the extracted examples. The lexical variants share semantic equivalence and common stylistic and functional features. The text finds that substitution is more widespread than the lexical insertion. The present research describes and some other occasional utterances.

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