[Lexicog] Re: Synonymy

[Fritz Goerling]

Nick,

I am not sure whether I understand what you mean by "no significant
difference when comparing
the combination ..."  It makes some sense to me when talking about
"synonymy."
When talking about "collocations", a "little big man" is certainly not the
same as a "big little man."
Some "little big men" were already mentioned in this discussion. I add
Nelson and the late
Ivorian president Houphouet-Boigny, a short man, whom they referred to with
respect
"short man with long arms." In German we say "length is not necessarily a
sign of greatness".

What does your interesting little emoticon >(„“-)  mean?



>>... and in the American movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Denis de
Vito
  (the little guy) play TWINS!



  Fritz Goerling






  Nick Miller wrote:





  Don’t forget “Little-Big Man“. Or Little-Big Horn for that matter. >(„“-)



  Using Copernic Agent (searching in 10 UK search engines, strictly keeping
to the word order) there was no significant difference when comparing the
combination big/little and little/big or big/small and small/big. Rather
inclusive




  NM




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