Abstract
A lexicographic description of the Russian idiom ⌜kto-kto, a…⌝, that is, its lexical entry, is proposed—according to the methodology of Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicography: its definition (in two formats: verbal, i.e. textual, and formal—as a formal semantic rule of the Meaning-Text type), its GOVERNMENT PATTERN, its syntactic structures and its lexical functions. As an illustration, the paper offers the linguistic representations of two Russian sentences that contain the idiom on the semantic, deep-syntactic and surface-syntactic levels. It is shown that ⌜kto-kto, a…⌝ is a normal, lexemic idiom, rather than a syntactic one, as it is often called.
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