期刊名称：Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Sociale
印刷版ISSN：1814-3199
电子版ISSN：2345-1017
出版年度：2007
卷号：4
期号：4
页码：141-144
出版社：Moldova State University
摘要：In spite of the fact that structurally idioms are polylexemic compositions and have a formal identity withthe syntactic pattern of a free combination of words, semantically they have long been viewed as indivisibleunits of meaning. However, the recent research has proved that speakers have their intuitions about the semanticanalysability of idioms which play an important role in determining their syntactic productivity andlexical flexibility. The actual usage of idioms in speech is not conditioned by arbitrary rules which are a matterof convention but are often 'motivated by people's understanding of the conceptual structures underlyingidioms. In contemporary linguistics this kind of idiom usage is variously designated as 'nonce variation','deliberate transformation', 'occasional use' or 'deformation' and is usually regarded as something made forthe nonce, as a linguostylistic device aimed at enhancing the expressivity of speech. From this point of viewidioms present a threefold unity of the semantic, structural and functional invariants being in the state ofuneven balance with one of them playing the leading role.
