IDIOMS MEANING 'NEVER' IN BULGARIAN, CROATIAN, MACEDONIAN, AND SERBIAN LANGUAGES Cover Image

FRAZEMI SA ZNAČENJEM 'NIKADA' U BUGARSKOM, HRVATSKOM, MAKEDONSKOM I SRPSKOM JEZIKU
IDIOMS MEANING 'NEVER' IN BULGARIAN, CROATIAN, MACEDONIAN, AND SERBIAN LANGUAGES

Author(s): Ana Vasung
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: idioms; Bulgarian language; Croatian language; Macedonian language; Serbian language; contrastive analysis

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with corpus of Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian and Serbian idioms with the meaning 'never'. Idioms can be classified into three groups; the first group is motivated by days and holidays, in the second group impossible characteristics are attributed to the subject, while the third group consists of idioms with the component of time adverb. We analyse origins, motivation, semantics and their equivalence in both languages.

  • Issue Year: 9/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 167-178
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Croatian
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