Fixed expression constitutes
an important part of the lexical system, where
monolingual and bilingual
dictionaries only capture certain number of units, and monolingual
and bilingual dictionaries only form
certain number of units, often reduced, to an alphabetical process of selection
and random description Mogorrón H. (2004). The lack of strict rules at the time
of integrate these dictionaries brought the introduction of different subsets
of fixed expressions. Unlike idioms, fixed expressions typically offer neither folk wisdom nor
an image. “Two heads are better than one” creates a bizarre, yet effective,
visual idea of one body that operates with two heads, while the idiom’s meaning
is that two people working on a problem have a better chance of solving it than
just a single thinker. Fixed expressions are more often a collection of words
with individual meaning that really have nothing to do with one another. Fixed expressions are linguistic
expressions that show irregularities concerning their syntactic behavior and
their meaning. Native speakers have no difficulty in producing and interpreting
fixed expressions. They know what words within fixed expressions can be modified
and under what circumstances their figurative meaning disappears. Language
learners as well as computers have trouble learning and efficiently using fixed
expressions.
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