Лекции по лексикологии английского языка. Гусева Г.В. - 20 стр.

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III. Structural classification of phraseological units

Prof. A.I. Smirnitsky worked out a detaiked structural classification of

phraseological units, comparing them with words. He points out one-top units

which he compares with affixed words because affixed words have only one root

morpheme. he points out two-top units which he compares with compound words

because in compound words we usually have two root morphemes.

Among one-top units he points out three structural types:

a) units of the type to give up (verb + postposition type);

b) units of the type to be tired;

c) prepositional-nominal phraseological units. These units are equivalents of

unchangeabl words: prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, e.g. on the

doorstep – quite near, on the nose – exactly, in the course of – during.

Among two-top units A.I. Smirnitsky points out the following structural

types:

a) attributive-nominal, e.g. a month of Sundays, grey matter;

b) verbal-nominal, e.g. to read between the lines; to speak BBC;

c) phraseological repetitions, e.g. now or never, part and parcel

IV. Syntactical classification of Structural classification of phraseological

units

Phraseological units can be classified as parts of speech. This classification

was suggested by I.V. Arnold. Here we have the following groups:

a) noun phraseological units denoting an object, a person, a living being,

e.g. bullet train, a latchkey child;

b) verb phraseological units denoting an action, a state, a feeling, e.g. to

break the log-jam, to get on somebody‘s coattails, to be on the beam;

c) adjective phraseological units denoting a quality, e.g. loose as a goose,

dull as lead;

d) adverb phraseological units, e.g. with a bump, in the soup;