A phraseme, also called a set phrase, fixed expression, idiomatic phrase, multiword expression (in computational linguistics), or idiom, is a multi-word or multi-morphemic … See more

Although the discussion of phrasemes centres largely on multi-word expressions such as those illustrated above, phrasemes are known to exist on the morphological level … See more

1. ^ Cowie, A.P. (ed.) (1998). Phraseology: Theory, Analysis, and Applications. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. ^ Dobrovol'skij, Dmitri O. & Elisabeth Piirainen (2005). … See more

Phrasemes can be broken down into groups based on their compositionality (whether or not the meaning they express is the sum of the meaning of their parts) and the type of … See more

• Phrasal template
• Phrase
• Technical term (jargon)
• Idiom (language structure)
• Irreversible binomial See more