SECONDARY PHRASE-FORMATION PROCESSES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article provides a description of secondary phrase-forming processes in the English language, which result in the emergence of usual derived phraseological units. The typology of these processes has been examined according to structural and semantic criteria. According to structural criteria, secondary phrase-forming processes can be classified into intrastructural (where the derivative and creative unit have the same structure) and interstructural (involving units with different structures). The relevance of the study is determined by both active secondary phraseology in the English language and interest in derived phraseological units, as well as the need to provide generalization and explanation regarding the process of formation of a new phrase based on an existing one. The aim of the work is the study of secondary phrase formation as one of the language mechanisms for describing the phraseological system in its dynamic state and development. In the course of the study, all possible changes in the expression plan of the creative phraseological unit that occur in the process of creating a new phraseological unit have been summarized and correlated with changes in the content plan. It has been established that the formation of a new phraseological unit is possible if the meaning of the derived unit differs from the value of the original unit. The meaning of a derived phraseological expression is created based on an existing linguistic sign, therefore it necessarily incorporates in a certain way the meaning of the creative unit. The common elements of the structure of the creative and derived phraseological units create a material basis for the semantic correlation between the units. The process of secondary phrase formation leads to the emergence of phraseological units with new structural and semantic indicators. It is simultaneously associated with changes in both form and content. The analyzed linguistic material has demonstrated that based on the same event or plot, different phraseological nominations can arise, including new meanings of already existing units.