EQUIVALENCE AND COMPOSITIONALITY IN A FACE/MAKE, DO IDIOMS
EQUIVALENCE AND COMPOSITIONALITY IN A FACE/MAKE, DO IDIOMS

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine a number of idioms formed around the verbs A FACE/MAKE, DO, such as: a face din ţânţar armăsar – make a mountain out of a molehill. We try to show and explain the differences and similarities found between the two languages: English and Romanian. Thus, idiomaticity will be interpreted in terms of selection or cultural background in both languages. We focus on observing whether there is equivalence in translation between the two languages or not and whether the differences in the choice of another culturally or historically determined element come from collocation. Moreover, we argue that idioms are indeed compositional as they form at the level of a particular XP and they show regular syntactic patterns of formation and their non-compositionality may be given by cultural or historical references

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