Phrase-building potential of old english somatisms

Authors

  • Sergey V. Mukhin Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Foreign Ministry of Russia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-7451-2021-40-2-253-263

Keywords:

somatism, phraseology, Old English, phrase-building, Swadesh list

Abstract

The article is concerned with presenting the procedure and main results of the research aimed at determining the phrase-building potential of lexical somatisms in Old English. The research proceeds to scrutinize the lexicographic representation of a number of lexical somatisms taken from the extended
207-word Old English Swadesh list with a view to establishing their lexical combinability. The wordcombinations thus detected are analyzed in order to find out some markers of phraseologization. Those word-combinations with somatic components that are successfully identified as phraseological units, fall
into two main groups in compliance with whether they feature either idiomatic or phraseomatic semantics, with the idiomatic group being the larger one and including the sentence-structured idioms of aphoristic nature. The numerical representation of the phrase-building potential of specific somatisms
graphically demonstrates a substantially varying capability ofthe latter to form phraseologically tied
word-combinations.

Author Biography

Sergey V. Mukhin, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Foreign Ministry of Russia

Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of English Language No. 1 of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Moscow, Russia

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2021-08-26

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Mukhin, S. V. (2021). Phrase-building potential of old english somatisms. Issues in Journalism, Education, Linguistics, 40(2), 253-263. https://doi.org/10.52575/2712-7451-2021-40-2-253-263

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