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WORDS IN COMBINATION - Coggle Diagram

- - - - the lexemes belong to different word classes
        
        2 lexical items (not grammatical) indipendent meaning
        
        base+ collocatorr
        
        range: the number of lexemes that occur together with the lexeme under discussion (the node) determine the range
  - - - collocations show various degrees of fixedness
  - - - in the BBI if there is a noun look under the noun, 2 nouns look under the second, adjective>verb
      - nouns, adj, verbs, adverbs
    - - CA verbs denoting creation
    - - EN collocations
  - - - BBI lists grammatical collocations under the dominant word
  - - - non included in dictionaries
- - - - complex lexical item which is longer than a word form but shorter than a sentence and which has a meaning that cannot be derived from the meaning of its component parts.
        
        If a lexical element can be replaced meaningfully by a different one, it is a semantic constituent.
        
        semantically opaque
        
        idioms can be syintattic and phonologically irregular (unpredictable stress pattern)
- - - - but by using clichés we signal that we have acquired part of the culture of a given speech community so they have an important social function
  - - - do not say anything
- - - - words lose their full sense (function is more important than meaning) not used in their semantic meaning but as formulas
        
        can be elliptical (semantic opaque )
      - situational idioms show a weakened meaning
- - - - confrom to the syntactic rules of english
- - - - fixed expressions would also include traditional phrases, slogans, and quotations
- - - - reality
    - - they are the basic organizing principle in language production