ON THE QUESTION OF THE PLACE AND ROLE OF PAREMIAS IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article reviews linguistic works on determining the place and role of paremiological units in the German language. In the works of German linguists, attention is updated on the issues of the theoretical plan, the origin of individual phraseological units, idioms and their classification. In German, the issues related to paremiology of such stable combinations as paremia are the least studied. Discrepancies are also noted in the very understanding of the concept of the term “stable phrase”, there is no unified understanding of this phenomenon. There is a lot of debate about what relates to phraseology and its understanding in linguistics. A number of researchers argue that phraseology should include such communicative units with a sentence structure, i.e. stable complexes that are structurally and functionally equivalent to a sentence. The question of the inclusion of paroemias in phraseology is the most debatable. The analysis of the place and status of paremiological units of the German language allowed us to come to the conclusion that the paremiological units of the German language correspond to the coefficient of definition of phraseology, since they are characterized by stability at all levels, which, first of all, manifests itself in the wide reproducibility of paremias over a long period.