PECULIARITIES OF COMPONENTIAL COMPOSITION REDUCTION OF MODERN ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS
To understand the dynamics of development of English proverbs as communicative phraseological units it is important to find out the tendencies in their quantitative change and the results of their componential reduction. The paper singles out the two tendencies of this development: quantitatively-reduced variants and quantitatively-reduced derivatives. The former do not break the identity of the phraseological unit and have seven main types. The latter change their nominative reference and, according to the character of reduction, may be of the four types: initial, final, bilateral and syncopated derivatives.