Phraseological unit i n grammatical structure of language
The main results of the study of grammatical properties of phraseological units in Russian phraseological science are justified and provision stating that the phraseology should be described not only as part of the vocabulary of the language, but also as a special area of its grammar are summarized in the article. The necessity of such a description is determined by the fact that phraseological units in grammatical structure of language manifests itself differently than the word; that is due to the specific form and content of the words and collocations as special units of language. This indicates that grammar structure universal for language is differently manifested in lexical and phraseological systems. Review of scientific studies that are devoted to the description of the grammatical properties of phraseology, shows clearly expressed originality of grammar phraseological unit both on the whole and in all its links: in lexical and grammatic categories of phraseological units, not showing total correlativeness with the system of parts of speech; in the set and in the manifestation of grammatic categories and syntactical patterns of phraseological and lexical combination in different categories’ units, in derivational processes specificity in phraseology, and so on. At the same time, correlativeness of idiom as well as of word in this aspect can be traced: it is possible to definitely talk about the word morphology and about morphology of phraseological unit, about word syntax and syntax of phraseological units of word formation and of “phrase formation” (phraseological derivation). The overall conclusion of the author: phraseological unit shows that it does exist in the language system in all its units, and at all levels, being subject to the general laws of the language and preserving its identity.