Idioms - theory

In semantics, two basic types of sense relations are distinguished – __________ and syntagmatic.

Paradigmatic relations refer to the relationship a lexeme has with other lexical items which can ___________ it.

Syntagmatic semantics is concerned with _________ of words.

The principle of ___________ implies that the meaning of a linguistic expression containing two or more words combined together can be inferred from the meanings of its constituent elements and rules employed to combine them.

A frequently recurrent, relatively fixed syntagmatic combination of two or more words is called __________.

Collocations are particularly challenging for _____________-semantic relation existing among words.

• synonymy

• antonymy

• homoymy

The word “opaque” means ____________.

A group of words whose overall meaning cannot be inferred from the individual meanings of these words is called ___________.

The words in idioms ____________ be rearranged.

The meaning of a non-idiomatic expression is _________, while the meaning of an idiom is ____________.