Idiomatic Groups in Vehbija Hodžić's Mawlid. The Influence of Mawlid Form on the Composition of Idiomatic Groups

Abstract

The tradition of writing a mawlid in the Bosnian language is more than a century long, but the mawlid as a literary genre has most often remained outside the framework of philological research. This also applies to phraseological research, because not a single mawlid was a source for phraseological material to consulted dictionaries, which is an additional signal for us to devote linguistic research to this literary form in the Bosnian language. The mawlid as such possesses a significant number of idiomatic groups because it expresses an authentic picture of the world expressed by the value judgments of the collective, and the mawlid itself inherits the value judgment of the collective with regard to the topic it deals with. Since the mawlid form has its limitations being written in verse, such a structural feature had an influence on the composition and use of idiomatic groups. Therefore, this paper deals with Hodžić's Mawlid and examines the relationship between his hendecasyllable (a verse line of 11 syllables) and the composition of idiomatic groups. The analyzed materials confirm that the selected mawlid is a rich source of phraseological picture of the world, but also that the author, through conscious interventions, influenced the composition of two-thirds of the idiomatic groups used. The analyzed material confirms that the selected mevlud is a rich source of phraseological  picture of the world, but also that the author, through conscious interventions, influenced the composition of two-thirds of the idiomatic groups used. These two-thirds are grouped according to the type of the intervention into the variants of idiomatic groups and occasionalisms of idiomatic groups according to the manner in which the intervention is carried out, i.e. according to the depth of the author's correction of the basic image of idiomatic groups from the usual forms recorded in dictionaries.