Syntactically Bound Constructions in the English Language:Structural-Semantic, Etymological, Functional and Phraseological Aspects
The article is devoted to the analysis of the syntactically bound constructions in the English language which function asa predicate in the sentence. These constructions belong to one of the classes of syntactic phraseological units - phraseos- chemes - and represent one of its variations. As all syntactic phraseological units, the constructions under consideration are connected both with the syntactic and phraseological levels of the language system. The peculiarity of these constructions is full or partial loss of grammatical and semantic actualisation by the first verbal component and existence of phraseosyn- tactical meaning. The article determines the linguistic status of syntactically bound constructions, reveals and systematises a set of the constructions of this type, shows the degree of their productivity in the British and American variants of English, investigates the specific character of their linguistic organisation and functioning in speech, singles out and describes their phraseosyntactical meaning, traces their etymology and proves a phraseological character of the constructions.