Phrase-Verbal Cluster as a Transitional Phase Towards Phrase Building in Russian and English (On the Model of "Verb + Qualitative-Adverbial Phraseological Unit")
The article studies the process of phrase-building of procedural phraseological units by the structure extension of qualitative-adverbial units through joining them to a verb. The author provides a definition of the identified model «verb + qualitative-adverbial phraseological unit» - phrase-verbal cluster - and describes its properties as those of a transitional phase in phrase-building, distinguishing it from a procedural phraseological unit.