Актуальні Питання Іноземної Філології Structural and Semantic Peculiarities of Phraseological Units Containing the Somatic Component "Hand (original) (raw)

The article deals with the substantivized, adverbial and verbal phraseological units of modern English with the somatic component "hand". This study has demonstrated that the somatic component "hand" is characterized by high productivity, in the sense that it is the basis of generating a great number of substantivized and verbal phraseological units. With respect to adverbial PhUs, it has been shown that they are not numerous (about 30). The most common structural type of substantivized PhUs is the structure involving attributive word-combination, for adverbial PhUs-it is a combination of one structural and one notional word and a subordinate word combination that consists of two components; for verbal PhUs the structure of subordinate word combination is the most relevant. All the PhUs which were investigated fall into one of the following three varieties in terms of phraseological meaning: idiomatisms, idiophraseomatisms, phraseomatisms. A great majority of PhU...