Phraseme, the Glossary
A phraseme, also called a set phrase, fixed expression, idiomatic phrase, multiword expression (in computational linguistics), or idiom, is a multi-word or multi-morphemic utterance whose components include at least one that is selectionally constrained or restricted by linguistic convention such that it is not freely chosen.[1]
Table of Contents
26 relations: Burushaski, Charles Bally, Chengyu, Cliché, Collocation, Compound (linguistics), Computational linguistics, Elisabeth Piirainen, English-language idioms, Grammatical mood, Idiom, Idiom (language structure), Idioms in American Sign Language, Inflection, Irreversible binomial, Jargon, Lingvisticae Investigationes, Morphology (linguistics), Multiword expression, Opiliones, Phrasal template, Phrase, Sajaseong-eo, Small caps, Totonacan languages, Yojijukugo.
- Phraseology
Burushaski
Burushaski is a language isolate, spoken by the Burusho people, who predominantly reside in northern Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
Charles Bally
Charles Bally (4 February 1865, Geneva – 10 April 1947, Geneva) was a Swiss linguist from the Geneva School.
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Chengyu
Chengyu are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions, most of which consist of four Chinese characters.
Cliché
A cliché is a saying, idea, or element of an artistic work that has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being weird, irritating, or bland, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.
Collocation
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance.
Compound (linguistics)
In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem.
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Computational linguistics
Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions.
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Elisabeth Piirainen
Elisabeth Piirainen, (née Dörrie, born 1943 in Hannover, – December 29, 2017), was a German linguist and philologist.
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English-language idioms
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
See Phraseme and English-language idioms
Grammatical mood
In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality.
See Phraseme and Grammatical mood
Idiom
An idiom is a phrase or expression that usually presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.
Idiom (language structure)
Idiom, also called idiomaticness or idiomaticity, is the syntactical, grammatical, or structural form peculiar to a language.
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Idioms in American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) is the main language of members of the deaf community in the United States.
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Inflection
In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness. Phraseme and inflection are linguistics terminology.
Irreversible binomial
In linguistics and stylistics, an irreversible binomial, frozen binomial, binomial freeze, binomial expression, binomial pair, or nonreversible word pair is a pair of words used together in fixed order as an idiomatic expression or collocation.
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Jargon
Jargon or technical language is the specialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity. Phraseme and Jargon are linguistics terminology.
Lingvisticae Investigationes
Lingvisticae Investigationes: International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources is a peer-reviewed academic journal of linguistics published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
See Phraseme and Lingvisticae Investigationes
Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language. Phraseme and morphology (linguistics) are linguistics terminology.
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Multiword expression
A multiword expression (MWE), also called phraseme, is a lexeme-like unit made up of a sequence of two or more lexemes that has properties that are not predictable from the properties of the individual lexemes or their normal mode of combination.
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Opiliones
The Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) are an order of arachnids, colloquially known as harvestmen, harvesters, harvest spiders, or daddy longlegs.
Phrasal template
A phrasal template is a phrase-long collocation that contains one or several empty slots which may be filled by words to produce individual phrases.
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Phrase
In grammar, a phrasecalled expression in some contextsis a group of words or singular word acting as a grammatical unit.
Sajaseong-eo
In Korean, sajaseong-eo are four-character idioms, the analog of Chinese chengyu and Japanese yojijukugo, and generally but not always of Chinese origin.
Small caps
In typography, small caps (short for small capitals) are characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters but reduced in height and weight close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures.
Totonacan languages
The Totonacan languages (also known as Totonac–Tepehua languages) are a family of closely related languages spoken by approximately 290,000 Totonac (approx. 280,000) and Tepehua (approx. 10,000) people in the states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo in Mexico.
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Yojijukugo
A is a Japanese lexeme consisting of four kanji (Chinese characters).
See also
Phraseology
- Paremiology
- Phraseme
- Phraseology
- Phrases
- Verbosity
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phraseme
Also known as Fixed expression, Fixed phrase, Set phrase, Verbal cliché.