Phraseology is the study of fixed expressions, such as collocations, idioms, composite predicates, phrasal verbs, and other types of multi-word lexical bundles. In this paper, we examine the previous study conducted by Minoji Akimoto (1983). Akimoto classifies 262 verb and noun phrases (VN Phrases) into 40 groups according to eight grammatical parameters. We use the parameter of 'word origin' to classify 251 VN Phrases into four groups, 50% of which are Germanic verb + Germanic noun phrase, followed by Germanic verb + french-origin noun phrase (32%), french-origin verb + french-origin noun phrases (9%) and french-origin verb + Germanic noun phrase (9%). We have the findings that Germanic verb + Germanic noun phrases are highly idiomatic from the point of view of idiomaticity, while Germanic verb + french-origin noun phrases are the least idiomatic among four groups.
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