Modern trends and concepts in Phraseology

Uzbekistan State World Languages University
MA course “ Modern trends and concepts in Phraseology” // Tukhtakhoidjaeva Z.T.

Student’s full name___________________________ Group No_________
SEMINAR 3
Ways of forming set expressions and their etymological features

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  Structural types of phraseological units (PhUs)
  
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  Etymological characteristics of phraseological units
  
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  Native phraseological units and their peculiarities
  
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  Borrowed phraseologisms and their characteristics
  

Task 1: Answer the following questions:

1. 
   What ways of forming phraseologisms do you know?
   
2. 
   What do you understand as semantic motivation?
   
3. 
   What types of meanings can be found in the semantic structure of the PhU?
   
4. 
   What criteria for classification of set expressions do you know?
   
5. 
   What is the difference between lexical and phraseological meanings?
   

Task 2: Give the meaning of the following PhUs and classify them according to their-grammatical functions:

No	PhUs	Meaning	Function
	To take the bull by the horns
	as mad as a hatter
	ups and downs
	thick and thin
	by hook or by crook.

Task 3: Analyse the following word groups and find out which of them are Phraseomatic free or stable WGs. Ground your opinion:

1. 
   To turn over a new leaf - _________________________________________
   
2. 
   To say goodbye - _______________________________________________
   
3. 
   Cool as a cucumber - ____________________________________________
   

4. 
   Achilles’s heel -_________________________________________________
   
5. 
   To call names - __________________________________________________
   

Task 4: Find the origin and meaning of the following phraseologisms:

PhUs	Origin and meaning
A white elephant
Green-eyed monster
Blue blood
Pandora’s box
Fit like a glove

Task 5: Complete the following proverbs and sayings. Give their equivalents / analogues in Russian or Uzbek:

1. 
   Every Jack….____________________________________________
   
2. 
   Live a century…_________________________________________
   
3. 
   All is well…____________________________________________
   
4. 
   It is the last straw…________________________________________
   
5. 
   A great ship…____________________________________________