Sintagmatizacija kao sredstvo veze između paremiologije i frazeologije / Syntagmatization as a Means of Connection Between Paremiology and Phraseology

Abstract

The language continuum is expressed in many ways: through the coexistence of autonomous language layers (and their corresponding language disciplines) and transitional units between certain categories, through the transitional varieties of the dialects of a language, etc. The very fact that there are transitional (hybrid) units that ensure the elasticity and permeability of the borders between language layers opens up a series of questions and challenges and puts before linguists the task of defining the minimum unit of some analysis as precisely as possible and its further hierarchical branching. However, since it is impossible to stop change in language, we should not harbor many illusions that movements in language will not open new fields and perspectives for understanding the particularity of a certain linguistic phenomenon. The elastic stability of language – and the continuity between paremiology and phraseology – can also be recognized in the possibilities of paremies to syntagmatize as sentence structures, i.e. to turn them into open structures that, like other idiom groups, fit into the grammatical perspective of the sentence in which they appear. This is possible probably due to the fact that idiom groups are created by the lexicalization of the “prominent part of the script”, i.e. due to the possibility of separating the so-called crystallization nucleus. In this paper, we have dealt with the mentioned type of paremis economization and we have tried to single out possible patterns of syntagmatization.