@incollection{Steyer2019, author = {Kathrin Steyer}, title = {There's no X, only Y. A corpus-based study of German and English proverb patterns}, series = {Living by the Golden Rule. Mentor - Scholar - World Citizen. A Festschrift for Wolfgang Mieder's 75th Birthday}, editor = {Andreas Nolte and Dennis F. Mahoney}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Bern [u.a.]}, isbn = {978-3-631-77182-2}, doi = {10.3726/b14979}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-88269}, pages = {125 -- 140}, year = {2019}, abstract = {This paper discusses new perspectives for a usage-based paremiology from a corpus-linguistic point of view. Using the example of proverb patterns, it shows different degrees of fixedness and proverb quality in German-English contrast. An interesting insight is that proverb similarities and differences can also be described by restrictions of semi-abstract schemes.}, language = {en} }