Analyse du figement et de ses possibles variations dans les constructions verbales espagnoles

It has been traditionally believed that the main characteristic of set phrases is precisely their fixed nature. This paper gathers the results of a thorough study of verbal set phrases in Spanish, which was developed to observe this feature and for which a database of 15,300 expressions was used. It is worth noticing that, even if these phrases are fixed to different degrees, a considerable amount of them allow modifications in some of their components which do not alter the global meaning.