PAREMIA AS A SPECIAL SYSTEM OF SIGNIFICANT UNITS OF THE LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article analyzes paemias as special significant units of the language. The similarity and difference of paremias in different languages, conditions of origin of paremias in different languages are noted. The analysis of the international and national in the paremiological systems of different languages is also carried out. Comparison is made between a word, a phraseological unit and a paremia. The characteristic of each significant unit of the language is given. The word is a constituent unit of a sentence, which is able to directly relate to the subject of thought as a generalization reflection. Phraseology in its qualitative originality is unique in other units of the language, and can be opposed to other units of the language only in the unity of language and content. The paremia stands out from the general system of sentences of Russian and other languages not only by its structural organization, but by its content. A paremic sentence is always two-dimensional in its meaning. They represent a special system of significant units of the language, which are characterized by their own inherent features only. Paremias differ from phraseological units in their durability in the language. They have been accumulating for thousands of years, some of them have reached our days since prehistoric times.