PHRASEOLOGICAL SYNONYMY IN ROMANIAN
PHRASEOLOGICAL SYNONYMY IN ROMANIAN

Summary/Abstract: Over the years, some linguists have studied phraseological synonyms, but these synonyms have often been called figurative synonyms, periphrastic synonyms, synonyms or figurative periphrastic synonyms. However, the scope of the concept of periphrasis is much wider than that of the term phraseological unit. Dictionaries of linguistic terms do not refer to phraseological synonyms; they are either recorded only exceptionally or otherwise. Phraseological synonyms can cover stable phrases, simple or developed sentences, and even whole sentences. It can be stated that two or more phraseological units are synonymous if they have the same or close meaning. No matter how different their form may be, a synonymous relationship can be established between them if they have the same referent, and from a grammatical point of view they have the same function. In order to determine whether there is a synonymous relationship between two or more lexical combinations, the substitution test is also relevant in this case. An interesting problem in Romanian linguistics regarding phraseological synonymy is the delimitation of phraseological synonyms from phraseological variants. In solving this controversial problem, we must take into account an extremely important extralinguistic criterion - frequency, but also the age or entries in dictionaries.

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