Zur Flexibilität von Idiomen im Deutschen
On the flexibility of idioms in German
Author(s): Gisbert FanselowSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Idiom; decomposability; syntactic flexibility
Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the syntactic flexibility of German idioms, with a particular focus on adjectival modification, relative clause formation, wh-movement, and passivization. It shows that both decomposable and non-decomposable idioms can be modified structurally be these processes.
Journal: Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 27
- Page Range: 115-134
- Page Count: 20
- Language: Georgian
