
Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia
Previously: Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego. Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia
Zur Flexibilität von Idiomen im Deutschen
(On the flexibility of idioms in German)
DOI: 10.18276/cgs.2018.27-07
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| ISSN: | 2450-8543 |
| eISSN: | 2353-317X |
| Authors: |
Gisbert
Fanselow
Linguistik, Universität Potsdam |
| Keywords: | Idiom decomposability syntactic flexibility |
| Issue / book publication date: | 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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