FEATURES OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH THE COMPONENT “HEAD” IN TUVAN AND RUSSIAN

Abstract

. The objective of the research is to analyze semantic and comparative phraseological units with the component “head” in Tuvan and Russian languages. To achieve this task the following tasks are set: to identify phraseological units with the component “head” from the lexicographic works of Tuvan and Russian languages; to distribute phraseological units into semantic groups; to identify similarities and differences between phraseological units with this component in the compared languages. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that phraseological units with the component “head” are considered for the first time in a comparative aspect in the studied languages. Russian and Tuvan languages are considered to have 115 phraseological units with this component, 62 phraseological units are identified in Russian, and 53 ones in Tuvan. 115 phraseological units in the compared languages are divided into 39 lexical and semantic groups.