Contrastive is the new black:  A cross-linguistic study of a “snowclone” in English, German, and Spanish

Tobias Ungerer; Stefan Hartmann

Contrastive is the new black: A cross-linguistic study of a “snowclone” in English, German, and Spanish

Tobias Ungerer, Stefan Hartmann

Published: 27 May 2025, Last Modified: 27 May 2025ICLC-11 OralEveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0

Keywords: Extravagance, snowclones, Construction Grammar, collostructional analysis

TL;DR: We present a collostructional analysis of the pattern [X BE the new Y] in English, German, and Spanish, showing that its equivalents in the three languages differ in semantic and formal flexibility.

Submission Number: 8

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