12 Linguistic Levels: Idioms and fixed expressions 1 Introduction 2 The concept and scope of phraseology and phraseological research 3 Approaching historical English phraseology 4 Metalinguistic sources and their value for the identification of phraseological units in historical texts 5 Origin, change, and earlier uses of English phraseological units 6 The impact of phraseology and collocation / string frequency on language change 7 Summary 8 References
AbstractIn order to establish a framework of reference for an approach to historical English phraseology, a brief discussion of the concept and scope of phraseology and phraseological scholarship is provided in Section 2. On this basis, Section 3 approaches historical phraseology in two consecutive steps -always paying special regard to English: an overview of the state of historical phraseology leads to major approaches, which establish the main 12