Economic Principle in Language and Idioms in English and Other Languages

This article discusses how idiomatic compounds are formed through language economy. The significance of the concept is underlined, as the idiomatic feature is a new word, and the construction involves the standard meaning and nominal object in addition to the meanings of wordforming components. Indices of extralinguistic meaning that need to be identified and produced by the coordination of features. The result of thought activity is this synchronization in the human brain. This is because a phrase or sentence with a complicated structure has its substance condensed and made relatively simple during the nominalization process is conveyed by a compound word's semantic structure, which in turn brings about idiomaticity.