RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics (Mar 2011)
On syntactic and semantic decomposition of an idio
Abstract
The metaphoric nature of an idiom accounts the unpredictability of the global meaning of the whole from, the literal meanings of the constituent parts and results in its usage as a lexical expressive means in fiction. Syntactic and semantic flexibility of idioms is confirmed by various kinds of their deformations.
