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W sprawie definicji idiomu
ABOUT THE DEFINITION OF IDIOM

Author(s): Pawel Zakrzewski
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Summary/Abstract: In the paper About the definition of idiom, there is a kind of comparison between the definitions of idiom of different authors, drawn in order to provide a common and coherent definition. Thus, idiom is an untranslatable connection of at least two words, not being a sentence, where there are semantic changes as far as the primitive meanings of the components are concerned. In addition, a sort of division of idioms into two categories is proposed; a distinction is made between nominal and verbal idioms.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 42
  • Page Range: 19-23
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish