On the importance of a diachronic approach to phraseology
-
Elena Sánchez-López
Abstract
A diachronic approach to Phraseology may provide us the key to understand the nature of the phraseological phenomenon, thus contributing to the establishment of the subdiscipline. In this paper, we underline the relation between Phraseology and language change, showing the similarities between Phraseologization and Grammaticalization processes and, subsequently, focusing on their differences. Having explained the general Phraseologization process, we focus on its three sides: the acquisition of structural, semantic and pragmatic fixedness, leading to the synchronic features known as polylexicality and idiomaticity. Having seen the importance of semantic and pragmatic factors in the process, we describe Phraseologization in terms of semantic change, using the Spanish idiom “con pelos y señales” as an example.
Abstract
A diachronic approach to Phraseology may provide us the key to understand the nature of the phraseological phenomenon, thus contributing to the establishment of the subdiscipline. In this paper, we underline the relation between Phraseology and language change, showing the similarities between Phraseologization and Grammaticalization processes and, subsequently, focusing on their differences. Having explained the general Phraseologization process, we focus on its three sides: the acquisition of structural, semantic and pragmatic fixedness, leading to the synchronic features known as polylexicality and idiomaticity. Having seen the importance of semantic and pragmatic factors in the process, we describe Phraseologization in terms of semantic change, using the Spanish idiom “con pelos y señales” as an example.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Nouns and labelling 1
- Causative and inchoative constructions with poner and meter (‘to put’) in Spanish 21
- Auditory verbs in the Spanish language 47
- From semantics to grammar 77
- A note on the relative diachronic productivity of metaphor and metonymy 109
- A cognitive approach to the grammaticalization of the epistemic marker fijo 117
- The future tense in Spanish 159
- Form and meaning in the development of verbal polysemy 173
- Something seems to have changed 195
- In substance , they came from above 221
- Grammaticalization of en vías de 237
- On the importance of a diachronic approach to phraseology 299
- Index 331
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Nouns and labelling 1
- Causative and inchoative constructions with poner and meter (‘to put’) in Spanish 21
- Auditory verbs in the Spanish language 47
- From semantics to grammar 77
- A note on the relative diachronic productivity of metaphor and metonymy 109
- A cognitive approach to the grammaticalization of the epistemic marker fijo 117
- The future tense in Spanish 159
- Form and meaning in the development of verbal polysemy 173
- Something seems to have changed 195
- In substance , they came from above 221
- Grammaticalization of en vías de 237
- On the importance of a diachronic approach to phraseology 299
- Index 331
