THE FORM CHANGE AND SHIFTS OF MEANING OF MULTI-WORD UNITS
Keywords:
MWUs, modified figurative expressions, semantic shift, secondary meaning, the post-secondary changeAbstract
This article explores the secondary and post-secondary derived lacunar phenomena of multi words units rearranged by the (partial) substitution in form change or/and semantic shift in terms of their renewed reproducibility. The author points out that the problem of change of multi-words units (MWUs) affect understanding of the modern English MWUs. To eliminate lacunae of understanding one should decode the new meaning by means of wide context applications, corpus analysis and other tools to compare and contrast MWUs phenomena in intra-transfer or inter-shift. The difficulties of interpretation of the semantically changed MWUs have been caused by their cultural uniqueness and vague change, both formal and semantic, performed by the secondary and post-secondary derivation. Thus, lacunarity lies in the first motivation of MWUs and after that in its secondary motivation, semantic and formal shift of MWUs.
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