Tautology as a means of forming connotations of phraseological constructions (as applied to Russian and German somatic phraseological units)
The article deals with tautology as applied to German and Russian somatic phraseological units that make up a large proportion of the lexis of the languages under study and their ability to reflect the main trends in the phraseological system. The authors reveal the possibility to enhance various connotative signs of the meaning of fixed phrases by including tautological components in their structure.