Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia

Previously: Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego. Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia


ISSN: 2450-8543     eISSN: 2353-317X    OAI    DOI: 10.18276/cgs.2018.27-07
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Issue archive / nr 27
Zur Flexibilität von Idiomen im Deutschen
(On the flexibility of idioms in German)

Authors: Gisbert Fanselow
Linguistik, Universität Potsdam
Keywords: Idiom decomposability syntactic flexibility
Data publikacji całości:2018
Page range:20 (115-134)
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Abstract

This paper discusses the syntactic flexibility of German idioms, with a particular focus on adjectival modification, relative clause formation, wh-movement, and passivization. It shows that both decomposable and non-decomposable idioms can be modified structurally be these processes.
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