SEMANTIC PECULIARITIES OF ZOOSEMIC PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS OF THE MARI LANGUAGE (BY THE MATERIAL OF THE ASSOCIATIVE EXPERIMENT)
The article presents an analysis of the processes of formation and usage of the stable units with the components - zoonyms in the Mari language. The research is executed by the material of the conducted two-stage associative experiment with the bearers of the Mari language. At the first stage the author provided the names of the animals represented in the structure of the Mari phraseological units, and at the second stage - the very zoosemic phraseological units, which are the most frequent in the context of literary works and in the speech of the bearers of the Mari language.