La fusión semántica entre las partes del cuerpo humano y el dominio animal

Abstract

In this paper we analyze expressions that are formed by an anatomical noun and an animal noun. Although they has been classified as fixed expressions with opaque meaning, we try to shoe that its meaning is derived from frame semantic of each noun; so, we propose a compositional analysis. For it, we have based on the studies of metaphor with body parts and zoomorphic metaphors and frame semantics. We compile examples of corpus and spontaneous language. We observe that, although these expressions have the same syntactic structure, the semantic shift is not the same for all, since there are degrees of displacement, because the values that are filtered belong to different levels. Moreover, they are not strictly phraseological units, but they are situated between lexicon, morphology and syntax.