A phraseme, also called a set phrase, fixed expression, idiomatic phrase, multiword expression (in See more

Phrasemes can be broken down into groups based on their compositionality (whether or not the meaning they express is the sum of the meaning of their parts) and the type of selectional restrictions that are placed … See more

Although the discussion of phrasemes centres largely on multi-word expressions such as those illustrated above, phrasemes are known to exist on the morphological level as well. Morphological phrasemes are convention… See more

• Phrasal template
• Phrase
• Technical term (jargon)
• Idiom (language structure)
• Irreversible binomial… See more

1. ^ Cowie, A.P. (ed.) (1998). Phraseology: Theory, Analysis, and Applications. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. ^ Dobrovol'skij, Dmitri O. & Elisabeth Piirainen (2005). Figurative Language: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Ling… See more