| Author | Magdalena Lisiecka-Czop |
|---|---|
| Title | Between seventh heaven and one foot in the grave – on phraseology with numeral components in cross-linguistic comparison (on the example of phraseological units in Polish, German, English and Spanish) |
| Keywords | contrastive phraseology, interphraseologisms, numbers in phraseology, cross-linguistic equivalence of phraseological units, cross-linguistic congruence of phraseological units |
| Pages | 403-419 |
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| Volume | 34 |
Numbers are substantial part of human practice in various fields and influence significantly the phraseology of many languages. In the paper phraseological units with numeral components are analyzed in a cross-linguistic perspective, with a special focus on 30 units with cardinal, ordinal and fractional numbers in Polish, German, English and Spanish regarding their formal congruence and semantic equivalence. Four kinds of equivalence and congruence relations are discussed and exemplified. The results of the investigation reveal – despite of interlingual differences – some semantic and functional universals with regard to phrases containing numeral components.