Lexical and Semantic Aspects of Proverbs

The field of paremiology research is interdisciplinary, intertwining with folklore, language, literature, history and other interrelated disciplines. The book presents a systematic analysis of proverbs based on corpus findings and compares their lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects across different languages. The present set of studies by František Čermák, the creator of the Czech phraseological dictionary, summarizes the results of his lifelong research and presents them to the international professional community