Wer Hat Nun Den Salat? - Now Who's Got the Mess? Reflections on Phraseological Derivation: From Sentential to Verb Phrase Idiom

Author: Kwaśniak, Renata

Source: International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 19, Number 4, December 2006 , pp. 459-478(20)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Abstract:

The paper investigates a case of phraseological derivation for the sentential idiom Da haben wir den Salat (`there we have the mess'). Corpus data show the development over time of a new verb phrase idiom jmd. hat den Salat (`s.b. has the mess').

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1093/ijl/ecl028

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