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The Indic verbo-nominal syntagmas based on nouns denoting parts of the body

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2011

Abstract

The essay deals with metaphoric multi-word verb expressions, their formation is motivated by the human body (body parts and organs) as an instrument and agent. Many of the noun + verb constructions, along with the naming function, also have an idiomatic meaning.