Abstract
This paper is concerned with the distribution of idioms with an imperative component in fiction, journalism and informal spoken dialogues. The analysis is based on the ORAL series of spoken corpora and the SYN series of written corpora of the Czech National Corpus.
The output of FRANTA, a tool for automatic idiom identification, is used for searching for the idioms. This paper represents an attempt to provide a detailed classification of this group of idioms.