Regularities in the Behaviour of Russian Phrasal Idioms

Natalia Tronenko (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

298 Seiten

2003
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
978-3-906769-75-2 (ISBN)

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It has been customary for linguists investigating the behaviour of idioms to focus primarily on their irregularities. The present work, which examines the idiom in the context of recent developments in syntactic theory, aims to uncover the regularities of idiom behaviour which underlie their superficial idiosyncrasies. The behaviour of Russian phrasal idioms offers a valuable testing ground for demonstrating the striking interconnections between the inflectional morphology of the Russian verb and idiomatic interpretation. Starting from the hypothesis that idioms are compositional with respect to the morphosyntactically driven features of their components, the analysis shows that the idioms under discussion reflect the feature values of their constituents transparently. The approach thus reveals a strong correlation between the semantic complexity and syntactic flexibility of idioms. The central hypothesis of this book, more technically, is that the degree of idiomatic frozenness can be defined in terms of X-bar projection levels and can be set out in terms of a 'frozenness hierarchy'. The frozenness hierarchy is seen to be a hierarchy of specifications for a lexical entry on the assumption that lexical specifications of phrasal idioms cannot be overriden by syntactic specifications.

The Author: Dr. Natalia Tronenko is a Lecturer in Russian at the University of Sussex. She received her Ph.D. in Philology from Kiev University and DPhil in Linguistics from the University of Oxford. She has published in the area of Russian morphosyntax, linguistic history of Russian and English, word-building and metaphor.

Contents: Concept of compositionality - Generative accounts of idioms - Morphosyntactic features of idiom constituents - Aspectual properties of Russian phrasal idioms: Aspectual pairs/Aspectual morphology/Situational aspect/Semantic tests - Argument structure of phrasal idioms: Domain of idiom formation/Thematic hierarchy/Animacy/Variations in argument structure/Word order variation - Frozenness hierarchy: Functional projections/Lexical representation of idioms - Syntactic flexibility of idioms - Negation in phrasal idioms - Discourse interpretation of phrasal idioms.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.11.2003
Verlagsort	Bern
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Behaviour • frozenness hierarchy • Hardcover, Softcover / Slawische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • HC/Slawische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • idioms • Linguistics • Negation • phrasal • Phraseologie • Regularities • Russian • Russisch • syntactic flexibility • syntactic theory • Tronenko
ISBN-10	3-906769-75-5 / 3906769755
ISBN-13	978-3-906769-75-2 / 9783906769752
Zustand	Neuware