Лекции по лексикологии английского языка. Гусева Г.В. - 17 стр.

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4. Usual and occasional WCs: blue sky – angry sky;

5. Conceptually determined and conceptually non-determined WCs: clean

dress – clean dirt;

6. Sociolinguistically determined and sociolinguistically non-determined

WCs: cold war – cold soup.

Lecture 5

Phraseology

Phraseological units are word-groups that cannot be made in the process of

speech, they exist in the language as ready-made units. They are compiled in

special dictionaries. Like words, phraseologocal units express a single notion and

are used in a sentence as one part of it. American and British lexicographers call

such units idioms.

Phraseological units can be classified according to the ways they are formed,

according to the degree of motivation of their meaning, according to their structure

and according to their part-of-speech meaning.

I. Ways of forming phraseological units.

A.V. Koonin classified phraseological units according to the way they are

formed. He pointed out primary and secondary ways of forming phraseological

units.

Pramary ways of forming phraseological units are those when a unit is

formed on the basis of a free word-group:

a) the most productive in Modern English is the formation of phraseological

units by means of transferring the meaning of terminological word-

groups, e.g. in cosmic terminology we can point out the following