List of used literatures introduction

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I MOTIVATION IN WORD-GROUPS
1.1 Definition and general characteristics of the word-groups.
1.2 Motivated and non-motivated word-groups.
CHAPTER II CLASSIFICATION OF WORD-GROUPS
2.1 Semantic features of word-groups.
2.2 Phraseological word-groups.
CONCLUSION
LIST OF USED LITERATURES


INTRODUCTION
Lexicology is a branch of linguistics – the science of language. Lexicology as a branch of linguistics has its own aims and methods of scientific research. Its basic task – being a study and systematic description of vocabulary in respect to its origin, development and its current use. Lexicology is concerned with words, variable word-groups, phraseological units and morphemes which make up words.
Being the object of the linguistic research within the frameworks of the lexicological analysis, word-groups draw much attention of different scientists at different stages of the research history.
Such linguists as Shveitser, Arnold, Nikitin, Akhmanova, Marchenko, and many others devoted their research papers to the matter of the word-groups, their classification, semantic features, and other specific characteristics. They have contributed linguistic research with a number of works, connected with this lexical units. The matter of the word-group thorough study is topical with a glance at their specific features, some phraseological peculiarities and semantic-grammatical structure.
The above-mentioned aspects have predetermined our choice of the topic of the present report "Motivation in word-groups".
The object of the investigation are word-groups of Modern English.
The subject of the present report includes specific features and characteristics of word-groups and motivation.
The purpose of the report writing is to investigate motivation in word-groups functioning in the Modern English language.
The purporse of the report has predetermined the following tasks of the investigation:
- to define the notion of the word-group and outline its general characteristics;
- to suggest the classification of the word-group;
- to consider semantic features of word-groups;
- to characterize motivated and non-motivated word-groups;
- to specify peculiar features of phraseological word-groups.
The practical value of the present report is performed by the possibility of using its materials for the further thorough study of this matter.