Los límites difusos entre compuestos sintagmáticos, colocationes y locuciones
The Diffuse Delimit Between Syntagmatic Compounds, Collocations and Locutions

Summary/Abstract: Syntagmatic compounds (CS) are not easy to distinguish from other fixed syntagmas such as collocations and nominal expressions, since there are many similarities between them from the formal, semantic and functional approaches. Thus, it is possible to find the same syntagma classified as a nominal expression, a collocation and a CS depending on the lexicographical or phraseographical work consulted (mano dura, for instance). García-Page (En torno a, “Hombre rana”), among other authors, has shown his concern for these similarities; Osorio and Serra have made a proposal to distinguish between nominal expressions and CS; Corpas (51) establishes a difference between collocations and nominal expressions according to their process of fixation. This paper aims to delimit the concept of CS in contrast to collocations and nominal expressions from a phraseological approach, on the basis of Pamies’ theory, who considers CS as phraseological units (PU). In order to do so, we propose two criteria regarding the fixation process of CS: that they have been artificially coined due to the need to name an ontological reality for the first time, and that this need arises in a specialised field of knowledge. We test the validity of these two criteria on a corpus of fixed syntagmas drawn from three Spanish novels.

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