Original scientific paper
(Ir)reversibility of Croatian and Italian Binominals
Damir Mišetić
; Sveučilište u Mostaru
Irina Budimir
; Sveučilište u Mostaru
Abstract
When phraseology first emerged as a scientific discipline,
the structural stability of phraseological units
was emphasized as one of its most important properties.
However, the recent research based on the online
corpora suggests that certain properties of phraseological
units require a differentiated approach,
and while the structural stability is still is one of its
inherent properties, it is considered relative, which
is why its variability is increasingly emphasised. This
applies to all types of phraseological units, including
binomials, which are typically characterized by a rigid
structure. Binominals are multi-word units, mainly
lexicalized, and have a more or less stable structure,
which often denotes idiomaticity. Different
types of idiom variations, especially lexical ones are
one of the characteristics of binomials; but their irreversibility,
i.e., topological variation, has not been extensively
researched. Despite the shortcomings of the
phraseological analysis of binomials, many showed
a high degree of reversibility, and the sequence of
their components proved to be more inconsistent
than previously claimed. Within a given synchronous
cross-section, the sequence of many binomial
components is reversible, while one sequence is often
prioritized. This should be increasingly considered
in the phraseographic analyses of binomials. The
analysis of the examples extracted from the Italian
web corpus itWaC and Croatian hrWac confirms that
reversibility is an inherent property of binomials.
Keywords
idioms; binomials; variation; sequence of components; irreversibility
Hrčak ID:
290707
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Publication date:
28.12.2022.
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