There's no X, only Y. A corpus-based study of German and English proverb patterns
- 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.
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| Author: | Kathrin SteyerGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-88269 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3726/b14979 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-631-77182-2 |
| Parent Title (English): | Living by the Golden Rule. Mentor - Scholar - World Citizen. A Festschrift for Wolfgang Mieder's 75th Birthday |
| Publisher: | Lang |
| Place of publication: | Bern [u.a.] |
| Editor: | Andreas NolteGND, Dennis F. MahoneyGND |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/05/08 |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Englisch; Kontrastive Phraseologie; Korpus <Linguistik>; Sprichwortforschung |
| First Page: | 125 |
| Last Page: | 140 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Phraseologie / Idiomatik |
| Program areas: | Lexik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung - Nicht-kommerziell - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International |