Mellado Blanco, CarmenBabič, SašaWilliams, FionnualaLitovkina, Anna T.2024-03-212024-03-212024-02-07Mellado Blanco, C. (2024). The ways of biblical quotations are mysterious: change of register and snowclones in Spanish and German from a constructivist point of view. En: Babič, S.; T. Litovkina, A.; Williams, F. (eds.). Standing on the shoulders of giants: a Festschrift in honour of Wolfgang Mieder on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Proverbium Online Supplement 3. Osijek: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Osijek. pp. 495-512. https://naklada.ffos.hr/knjige/index.php/ff/catalog/view/18/23/47978-953-314-216-6http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33277The subject of this essay is Bibleisms in German and Spanish which, in addition to their original religious and often moralizing meaning, have, over time, developed additional ironic and/ or humorous semantics. Some of them may undergo, alongside the change of register, a process of constructionalization derived from their lexical variability in discourse. In this way, a high number of anti-proverbs (Mieder 1982) can lead to the creation of patterns and the emergence of semi-schematic constructions or snowclones. Using the Sketch Engine corpora esTenTen18 (https://www.sketchengine.eu/), and deTenTen20 (https://www.sketchengine.eu/) the aim of this corpus-based study is to explore the lexical variability of the biblical quotation No solo de pan vive el hombre/ Der Mensch lebt nicht vom Brot allein (Man shall not live by bread alone) (Matthew 4:4) in Spanish and German in order to uncover a possible phenomenon of constructionalization. Besides, it will also be explained whether the two languages display productivity to the same extent.engCopyright (c) 2024 Proverbium and authors. Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Biblical PhraseologyConstruction grammarSpanish-German Snowclonesbook partopen access