Fijación, fijeza y variación en las locuciones nominales: el caso de metedura de pata, tomadura de pelo y comedura de coco

Abstract

Focusing our attention on the description of nominal locutions, not so abundant in Spanish dictionaries, the current research has the aim to study both the history and the fixing process of the nominal derivatives of meter la pata, tomar el pelo and comer el coco, from the application of the theoretical concept of lexical family and variation. In addition, it is also relevant to describe precisely its geographical distribution in the Spanish-speaking world from the analysis of data based in linguistic corpora. In this way, it will be possible to shed some new light on the institutionalization process of these living phraseological units in the cultural heritage.