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This chapter assesses the relationship between compounds and idioms, discussing the place and scope of idiomatology, and compounds as idiomatic expressions. Compounds represent a larger range of lexemes than is commonly and traditionally believed, and show quite a few features and properties that are characteristic of idiomatic expressions. As a matter of fact, they share with idiomatic expressions the ways in which they arise, their existence proper, and their interpretation.

Keywords: compounds, idioms, idiomatiology, idiomatic expressions

Stanislav Kavka

Stanislav Kavka is Professor in Linguistics and the English Language at Ostrava University, Czech Republic, previously a guest lecturer at universities in Sweden, USA, and Germany, and presently working also at two English Departments in Poland and Slovakia. During his lifetime he has worked in the fields of phonology, ESP, comparative historical linguistics, and recently idiomatology. He is the author of a number of studies and textbooks and also of Semantic Determinations Within the Noun Phrase of Modern English and Spanish (Prague, 1980), An Outline of Modern Czech Grammar (Uppsala, Sweden, 1987), A Book of Idiomatology (Zilina, Slovakia, 2003).

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