cut, is increased, the listener obtains further details and learns what is cut. The
reference of
cut is unchanged. Every notional word can form additional syntactic ties
with other words outside the expression. In a set expression information furnished by
each element is not additive: actually it does not exist before we get the whole. No
substitution for either
cut or figure can be made without completely ruining the
following:
I had an uneasy fear that he might cut a poor figure beside all these clever
Russian officers (Shaw).
He was not managing to cut much of a figure (Murdoch).
The only substitution admissible for the expression
cut a poor figure concerns the
adjective.
Semantic approach stresses the importance of idiomaticity, functional -
syntactic inseparability, contextual - stability of context combined with idiomaticity.
In his classification of V.V. Vinogradov developed some points first advanced by the
Swiss linguist Charles Bally. The classification is based upon the motivation of the
unit, i.e. the relationship existing between the meaning of the whole and the meaning
of its component parts. The degree of motivation is correlated with the rigidity,
indivisibility and semantic unity of the expression, i.e with the possibility of changing
the form or the order of components, and of substituting the whole by a single word.
According to the type of motivation three types of phraseological units are suggested,
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