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The purpose of this study is to analyze correlations between fixedness and variation in idioms. In idioms, fixedness means figuring out the meaning of each component as a corpus of chunk rather than in a literal sense based on the principle of compositionality when hearing or reading idioms. An idiom is entered as a unit and called and reproduced as a chunk, being similar to a word, which is closely related to the psychological fixedness of idioms. Unlike common words, idioms are monosemic and deictic units rather than polysemic and implicative ones. From the perspective of structural fixedness of idioms, word combinations in idioms are not restricted by the morphosyntaxique or semantic rules and often show irregularities. Since such irregularities can be an important sign of fixedness in idioms, stronger syntactic constraints lead to greater fixedness. In recent studies on idioms, the aforementioned principles of fixedness are applied only to a very limited group of idioms in reality. Keeping those aspects in mind, the present study set out to investigate which syntactic-vocabulary and grammar conditions would be restricted by the fixedness of idioms and demonstrate that the fixedness was not actually absolute and caused relatively many variations through diverse examples.
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idioms, fixedness, variation, literal meaning, idiomatic meaning
