Modern trends and concepts in Phraseology

What functions can be performed by verbal PhUs? Give examples

Cognitive, voluntative, cumulative. They perform predicate: to spill the beans.

133. 
     What types of adjectival phraseological units do youknow? Provide examples
     

Phraseological units serving as a modifier of a noun and denote a quality of the thing named are called adjectival
Comparative – as brave as lion, non-comparative and direct (alive and kicking)
Idiomatic adjectivals – long in the tooth-old
Idiophraseomatic – as clear as mud
Phraseomatic – hale and hearty

134. 
     Make up a phraseosemantic group of adjectival PhUs describing appearance
     

To look like million dollars – to look like a million dollars
Pretty as a picture – very attractive or pleasant to look at
Not a spring chicken – no longer young

135. 
     . Explain the classification of PhUs by Amosova N.N. with examples
     

Idioms – mere’s nest, red tape (non-motivated)
phrasemes – a French leave, to call somebody names (partially motivated)
traditionally fixed contexts – to shrug one’s shoulders (motivated)


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