THE CONCEPT AND CLASSIFICATION OF STABLE UNITS IN ENGLISH

Abstract

The article describes the place and classification of stable units of the English language. It is noted that the most important of them is the systematization of the stable units themselves, their semantic system. A number of researchers consider the main reason for the transition of a syntactic group into a complex word to be the isolation of meaning and the formal isolation of parts. They do not distinguish between a complex word and a stable phrase, do not reveal the semantic reasons for isolation. The reason for the indecomposability of phrases is not in the presence of a single content underlying it, but in the nature of the relationships that make up its elements, in the analysis of the dominant and dependent members of the phrase. The analysis of the review of linguistic literature on the definition of the place and classification of stable units of the English language has shown that a single point of view has not yet been reached in the understanding of certain types of stable phrases. Sometimes different types of stable phrases are sorted out without taking into account their diversity. The issues of the distribution of phraseological units are best solved in the classification of V.V. Vinogradov, in which he distributes phraseological units into three types. They are characteristic of the general language system and control the mechanism of phraseological formation in the language: phraseological merges; phraseological unities; phraseological combinations.