Учебное пособие: Brief course on lexicology

2. phraseological unities – partially non-motivated

3. phraseological collocations – motivated but made up of words possessing specific lexical valency. That’s why there is a certain degree of stability in such group.

The criterion of idiomaticity;

The criterion of function;

The criterion of context;

Phraseological units might also be shared to:

- phrasemes – two-member word-groups in which one of the members has specialized meaning dependent on the second component: “small hours”.

- Idioms – the idiomaticity of the whole word-group; unusualness of collocability or logical incompability of member-words; usually homonymous with corresponding variable word-groups: red tape, to let the cat out of the bag.

The distinguishing feature of the new approach is that phraseology is regarded as a self-contained branch of linguistics and not as a part of lexicology. According to this approach phraseology deals with all types of set expressions which are divided into 3 classes :

1. phraseological units

2. phraseomatic units

3. border-line cases

Lecture 6

Word structure

There are 2 levels of approach to the study of word-structure:

- the level of morphemic analysis

- the level of derivational or word-formation analysis

The basic unit of morphemic level is the morpheme defined as the smallest indivisible two-facet language unit.

Three types of morphemic segmentability of words are distinguished:

· complete

· conditional

· defective

Words of conditional and defective segmentability are made up of full morphemes and pseudo (quasi) morphemes. The latter do not rise to the status of full morphemes either for semantic reasons or because of their unique distribution.

Semantically morphemes fall into:

1. root-morphemes

2 . affixational morphemes

Structurally morphemes fall into:

1. free

2. bound