PHRASEOLOGISMS IN A LITERARY TEXT: STRUCTURAL, SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the structural, syntactic and semantic features of phraseological units (PU) used in modern German literary texts. The structure of phraseological units is presented in the form of a number of schemes – models. The main syntactic function performed by phraseological units in a sentence is analyzed. The author comes to the conclusion that they are used mainly as a compound phraseological predicate. When analyzing the semantic features of the units under study, several semantic groups of phraseological units are discovered that comprehensively characterize the dramatis personae. 25 per cent of them are phraseological units with a core compo- nent-somatism, that is, a lexeme denoting a part of the body. They convey various features of the perception of reality by the characters in the work and express their emotional state. The rest are mainly related to the transmission of the following meanings: the behavior of the characters, the activities of law enforcement agencies, and the actions of the criminal.