Resumen de Idioms: on paradigmatic semantic relations
One of the central tasks of the Meaning-Text-Theory (MTT) and the Moscow Semantic School (MSS) was the development of concepts to describe and represent paradigmatic semantic relations between lexical units. In this article I would like to apply these ideas, as well as some new ones developed within cognitive semantics, to the analysis of idiom quasi-synonymy (both within a given language and cross-linguistically) as well as idiom polysemy. This can be regarded as an endeavour to continue the line of research initiated by MTT and developed by MSS, which is aimed at the elaboration of appropriate formats for the representation of relevant relations within the lexical system. It is especially interesting to note some regular and systematic semantic relations in the field of idioms because this part of the lexicon has traditionally been regarded as irregular per se. In fact, paradigmatic semantic relations between idioms as well as concrete results of semantic derivation are often unpredictable in this field, but in most cases they are explainable in terms of backward reasoning.
