Modern trends and concepts in Phraseology

22. Can you suggest your own definition of a set expression? Give examples
Set-expression is a word-group consisting of two or more words whose combination is integrated as a unit with a specialized meaning of the whole. Set-expressions are characterized by stability, i.e. they’re fixed and ready-made nature, and polylexicality, i.e. consisting of more than one lexical unit.
The last straw – oxirgi imkon
Do not count your chicken before they’re hatched
Let sleeping dogs lie
A dark horse
23. What criteria for classification of phraseological units do you know?
Origin: native/borrowe PhUs;
Way of forming: sources and creators;
Motivation: fully, partially or non-motivated;
Structure: 2-3-4 components;
Variability: lexical/and, or grammatical variants
Semantic fields: describing various concepts;
Parts of speech: verbs, nouns, adjectives, numerals, adverbs.
24. What is an expressive function? Provide examples
Expressive function contains an image of pragmatic value:
ugly as sin/
as clear as crystal
25. Name the scholars who made a considerable contribution to Phraseology
Vinogradov
Amosova
Kunin
Arnold
Lipka
26. Which phraseological units have idiomatic/idiophraseomatic and phraseomatic meanings?
● When pigs fly - idiomatic
● Better late than never - phraseomatic
● Pay a visit - idiophraseomatic
27. What is the difference between the semantic and sememic analysis of PhUs?

28. What is the difference between a free and stable word-group? Provide examples
Stable word groups:

1. 
   are ready-made;
   
2. 
   as a rule, do not follow substitution of components;
   
3. 
   meaning is partially or fully-non motivated;
   
4. 
   the whole expression functions as single syntactic unit;
   
5. 
   discourse is predictable;
   
6. 
   can have both denotational (free) and connotational (transferred) meanings;
   
7. 
   often have stylistic meanings (emotional, evaluative, functional, pragmatic)
   

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