Linear Unit Grammar (LUG), as described in this book of the same title, is an attempt to overcome the limitations of hierarchical structures when describing utterances, especially spoken ones. Instead of the all so familiar tree diagrams, utterances are viewed as a linear sequence of chunks, phraseological units that perform certain functions. LUG follows the work by Brazil (1995), which introd...

Verbal Phraseological Units are expressions made up of two or more words in which at least one of these words is a verb that plays the role of the predicate. Their main attribute is that this form of expression has taken on a more specific meaning than the expression itself. The automatic recognition of this type of linguistic structures is a very important task, since they are the standard way...

Phraseological units are an integral part of the national linguistic culture. In collective consciousness native speakers, set phrases generate a phraseological picture world common to any language community. Individuals have their integrated into general one. The parameters discourse and communication represent valuable material for innovative research in field aesthetics. grammar aesthetics c...

The paper is concerned with the occurrence and the functions of nouns referring to animals in the context of similes and metaphors implementing the metaphoric scheme "Human is an Animal". These phraseological units are the result of repressing the boundary percepts lying between a Human and a Non-Human. The data (5500 entries) is excerpted from English, German, Czech, and Russian phraseological...

The methodology of teaching different types phraseological units English is discussed language. Phraseological units, the meaning which difficult to deduce from lexical elements that compose them, are highlighted. It argued a full-fledged competence includes possessing certain number stable phrases studied A methodological approach proposed allows use as material for activating communicative co...

A phraseological expression in a language may have equivalent expressions in other languages with different morpho-syntactic structures and semantic properties. Our recent experience in the Benedict Project (EU IST-2001-34237), in which a Finnish semantic lexicon compatible to the Lancaster English semantic lexicon (Rayson et al., 2004) has been built, shows that there can exist complex cross-l...