Books by Elisabeth Piirainen

The book is both a continuation of "Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond" (2012) and differs from it by new insights into the similarities of the European languages. Using comprehensive data from 77 European and some non-European languages, another 250 "widespread idioms" have been analyzed in terms of their distribution and origins.

Suitable for academic teaching and further research in the fields of phraseology and figurative language, areal and contact linguistics, and European cultural studies, this book answers significant questions regarding hitherto vague ideas about the phraseological similarities between European languages and their cultural foundation.