The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the aspects of fixed word order in the seven categories of idioms, on the bases of psycholinguistics and Greenberg's marked theory. And the scope of idioms examined in the study is from the level of complex wor...
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the aspects of fixed word order in the seven categories of idioms, on the bases of psycholinguistics and Greenberg's marked theory. And the scope of idioms examined in the study is from the level of complex words to that of phrases, not including that of sentences such as proverbs.
The results are as follows:
(1) The Chronologically preceding term is followed by the later one: (2) In general, the male term precedes the female one, but in undesirable cases or in animals the ordering of sex is reversed. (3) Small numbers precede large numbers. (4) The term nearter to the speaker is followed by the term farther from the speaker. (5) In the case of directions, the term easier to percieve appears at the first pleace. (6) The term stronger, further, and more useful appears at the first place. (7) The positive term in evaluation precedes the neagtive one.
In conclusion, the above results can be explained by the Greenberg's marked theory that the unmarked term precedes the marked term.