TYPES OF VARIABILITY OF THE ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH THE VERB 'PUT'
The phraseology with the identical-to-verbal function, incessantly draws attention of linguists in view of inexhaustible discourse potential. It is because the verb is a kernel of a statement and the center of gravity of the words belonging to other parts of speech, forming set phrases often with the transferred meaning of the words participating in it, i.e. generating phraseological units. On the other hand, those phraseological units represent an intensive development tool of modern English which, being an analytical language, actively uses phraseology for expansion of its nominative potential. In this regard, as an object of the research we choose the verbal phraseological units (PU) of modern English which leading structural and functional component is the verb put. The subject of this research is the presence and the nature of variability of components in the phraseological units chosen for the analysis. The phraseological concept of Professor A.V. Kunin, which theoretical issues are supported with the method of phraseological identification offered by the linguist, formed a scientific basis of a research. Such private methods of a linguistic research as the method of the structural analysis, the method of the componential analysis, methods of the definitional and contextual analysis are also used in the paper. As a result of the research of phraseological units with the verbal component put, three types of PU variability are found out, and we come to the conclusion that the most widespread types of variability are the lexical variability (81%), quantitative variability (12%) and grammatical variability (7%). Comparison of contextual use of different types of phraseological variants shows that the variability does not break the identity of phraseological unis under study.