Phraseology lecture 13 phraseology and phraseological units

7. Gender macrocomponent may be expressed explicitly, i.e. determined by the structure and/or semantics of a PU, and in that case it points out to the class of objects denoted by the PU: men, women, people (both men and women).

• 7. Gender macrocomponent may be expressed explicitly, i.e. determined by the structure and/or semantics of a PU, and in that case it points out to the class of objects denoted by the PU: men, women, people (both men and women).
• E.g., compare the PUs every Tom, Dick and Harry meaning ‘every or any man” and every Tom, Dick and Sheila which denotes ‘every or any man and woman’.