»One-word« Idioms

Abstract

The paper reexamines the definition of idioms taking into consideration some phraseological elements (krenulo je niz brdo (nizbrdo) što, ići na ruku (naruku) komu) or phraseological units (bogtepitaj, budibogsnama, kvragu). The accepted definition of idioms is redefined to include some »one-word« idioms (amo-tamo, brže-bolje, danas-sutra, rak-rana, više-manje, zbrda-zdola). The research is based on a corpus of Croatian manuals of orthography from Partaš to Babić and Moguš, Croatian monolingual dictionaries, dictionaries of Croatian idioms and the electronic corpus Croatian Language Repository.

Keywords

• Croatian phraseology
• Croatian orthography
• idioms
• »one-word« idioms
• subordination
• coordination