General Phraseology

The book presents a 100% novel approach to phraseology: A language-universal deductive calculus of all theoretically possible phraseological expressions (= phrasemes) is proposed, implemented in 55 rigorous definitions. Nine major classes of phrasemes are established and illustrated: lexemic idioms (shoot the breeze), lexemic collocations (pay a visit; helicopter parents), lexemic nominees (the Northern Palmyra) and lexemic clich?s (What's your name?) to put it differently); morphemic idioms (forget), morphemic collocations (Londoner ~ Muscovite), morphemic nominees (Greenland) and morphemic clich?s (antidepressant); and syntactic idioms (Her be late?!?). An additional class of pragmatically constrained lexemic expressions is described: pragmatizes (No parking; At attention! Roger.). Each phraseme class is supplied with precise methodology for a lexicographic description; several lexical entries for representatives of all classes are given. The language data come from English and Russian. General Phraseology: Theory and Practice is meant as a contribution towards the elaboration of a unified notional system for linguistics.