Set Phrase

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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Produktbeschreibung

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A set phrase or fixed phrase is a phrase whose parts are fixed. In English, many set phrases are composed of an adjective and a noun, but this is not essential to the definition of the phenomenon. Set phrases may function as idioms (e.g. red herring) or as words with a unique referent (e.g. Red Sea). There is no clear dividing line between a commonly used phrase and a set phrase. It is also not easy to draw a clear distinction between set phrases and compound words. In theoretical linguistics, two-word set phrases are said to arise during the generative formation of English nouns. While compound words are often stressed on the first syllable, set phrases usually carry equal stress on each word. A certain stricter notion of set phrases, more in line with the concept of a lexical item, provides an important underpinning for the formulation of Meaning-Text Theory.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 76
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786130512941
• ISBN-10: 6130512945
• Artikelnr.: 28964881