Filologija, No. 75, 2020.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/ydkx2cwxk9
A Corpus-Driven Study of Idioms in Croatian
Ivana Filipović Petrović
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti
Abstract
Since their advent, electronic corpora have been considered a useful linguistic tool, but today they are virtually a matter of course in research conducted in most linguistic subdisciplines, including phraseology. Idioms, the subject matter of phraseology, are characterized by conventionality, (in)variability and desemantization. Their systematic study requires not only numerous examples of their use, but should also rely on statistical trends, including their frequency, characteristic combinations, the environments where they appear and, ideally, instantaneous access to their wider context.
This paper presents a study into the characteristics of idioms by relying on data from the largest Croatian electronic web corpus, hrWaC. The study has been conducted within the project to compile the Dictionary of Croatian Idioms. The aim of the paper is to determine the characteristics of idioms used by speakers of Croatian, particularly their variability, meaning and use, in an attempt to contribute to gaining a deeper and a more complete insight into
Croatian phraseology.
Keywords
idioms, corpus, frequency, conventionality, variability, examples of actual use
Hrčak ID:
254315
URI
Publication date:
23.3.2021.
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