STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC FEATURES OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN LINGUISTICS
Keywords:
phraseological units, structural features, semantic features, idiomaticity, non-compositionality, cognitive linguistics, phraseological classification.Abstract
The present article examines the structural and semantic properties of phraseological units as a distinct category of the linguistic system. Drawing on established traditions in Russian Soviet phraseological scholarship as well as contributions from cognitive linguistics, the study analyses the principal structural models through which phraseological units are organized, the semantic mechanisms that underpin their figurative meaning. Special attention is devoted to the relationship between formal stability and semantic transformation, the role of internal motivation in determining the degree of idiomaticity.
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