Gradul de învechire a frazeologismelor cu două sau mai multe arhaisme [Articol]

Abstract

In traditional linguistics, phraseological units belong to the segment of natural language use which is opposed to creativity: they are stable, ready-made word combinations. They often conserve phonetic, grammatical, archaic lexical elements, constituting a historical result of language evolution, and, paradoxically, of language creativity. Semantic opacity, as well as syntactic "freezing", catalyses the phenomenon of preservation in the structure of phraseological units not only of one archaism, but also of two or more. Though small in number, the Romanian language contains such linguistic entities. The preservation of archaic elements in phraseology becomes possible due to their stability and idiomatic character, while the existence of entities with several archaisms implies the idea that these traits are scalar notions, that is, they have a much higher degree in these phraseological entities.