Luận văn An investigation into syntactic and semantic features of idioms denoting work in english and vietnamese

Tóm tắt Luận văn An investigation into syntactic and semantic features of idioms denoting work in english and vietnamese: ...s a fixed phrase which has integrity of meaning, making a complete referential unit whose meaning is different from the total meanings of its components; it is non-literal and works as a single word” 2.2.2. Idioms Denoting Work We often relate the world of work to make money. Working for m...rticiple + Noun (5) The sports shop is doing a roaring trade in bicycles these days. [72.p.10] (Article) + Present Participle + Noun (6) - Jane likes to have a finger in every pie [17, p.216] (Article) + Noun + Prepositional Phrase In comparison with English idioms, Vietnamese also own...al phrase (25) It’s going to be a busy year of us. We’ve got two major projects to finish and an even bigger in the pineline. [42, p.180] Preposition + Noun Phrase The prepositional phrases in both English and Vietnamese denoting work can be illustrated in the table 4.4 Table 4.4. Prepos...