How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proverbs

alliteration animate fancy anthropomorphization aphorism argument in longer assigned Barley break no bones chapter chieve classification cliché context conversational turn corpus didactic didactic tendency distinguishes the proverb Dundes ellipsis elliptical constructions ethnographic Evaluative argument example F-Corpus proverbs Faint heart fair lady Fair words hurt fast find father feature matrix definition figurative proverbs fouler free conversational genres grammatical Hain hearer hyperbole Identical SPI imperative mood inventory entry items of folklore lectal linguistic linking statements LIT via metaphoric LIT via scenic literal reading longer speech metaphoric animation metonymy Mieder Milner Norrick noun object-attribute metaphor ODEP p-grammar paradoxical proverbs paraphrase pithy prosodic proverb formulas proverb inventory proverb meaning proverbial phrase proverbs as texts radically elliptical regular grammar related to LIT scenic species-genus synecdoche Seiler semantic interpretation semantic representation sentence simply speaker SPI related SPI SPI supercultural surface structures synonymy topic-comment traditional ungrammatical proverbs utterances variants verb vp(v X-er