Sven Staffeldt
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sven Staffeldt is involved.
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2011 Compositional and embodied meanings of somatisms: A corpus-based approach to phraseologisms Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic research, Schönefeld, Doris (ed.), pp. 195–220 | Article
The chapter focuses on the problem of meaning determination of German idioms that consist of at least two words and contain a body part term as a constituent. Such so-called “somatisms” make up a considerable part of the phrasemes in German and English. What do these terms in idiomatic somatisms… read more