Idiomatic proclivity and literality of meaning in body-part nouns: Corpus studies of English, German, Swedish, Russian and Finnish

Jussi Niemi, Juha Mulli, Marja Nenonen, Sinikka Niemi, Alexandre Nikolaev, Esa Penttilä

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    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)237-252
    JournalFOLIA LINGUISTICA
    Volume47
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013
    Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    Keywords

    • body-part nouns
    • fiction
    • fiktio
    • idiomit
    • idioms
    • leksikaalinen frelvenssi
    • lexical frequency
    • literality of meaning
    • merkityksen kirjaimellisuus
    • newspaper language
    • ruumiinosasubstantiivit
    • sanomalehtikieli

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