What do Feuertaufe, Deckung and Stellung have in common? – Some phraseological units from the soldiers’ everyday on the track

Authors

  • Urška Valenčič Arh Filozofska fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/vestnik.8.131-149

Keywords:

phraseological units, motivation, contemporary German, war diary, World War I

Abstract

The article discusses German phraseological units with the components Feuertaufe, Deckung and Stellung and their lexical and semantic changes from the diachronic aspect. The study is based on two databases: a German war diary from World War I and the lexicographical corpus DWDS of the contemporary German language.

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Published

22. 12. 2016

Issue

Section

Linguistics

How to Cite

Valenčič Arh, U. (2016). What do Feuertaufe, Deckung and Stellung have in common? – Some phraseological units from the soldiers’ everyday on the track. Journal for Foreign Languages, 8(1), 131-149. https://doi.org/10.4312/vestnik.8.131-149