STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH TIME COMPONENT IN ENGLISH, GERMAN AND UKRAINIAN LANGUAGES (BASED ON ECONOMIC TEXTS)

Abstract

The structural features of phraseological units with TIME component in English, German and Urainian languages based on economic texts are investigated by article’s authors. A comparative analysis of structural and grammatical characteristics of phraseological compounds with TIME component according to the classifications of scientists in English and German languages depending on the structural-grammatical, functional-semantic and other linguistic properties of phraseology and methods of their study in modern phraseology is carried out. In the course of the research, English-language phraseological units with TIME component “hour, minute, time, second, moment” and German-language phraseological units with TIME component “Stunde, Minute, Zeit, Sekunde, Moment” with the structure of phrases were analyzed. The following categories of phraseological units, built on the model of phrases are distinguished: noun, verb, adverb and adjective. Almost all of the analyzed phraseological units have a subordinate type of syntactic connection. Depending on the number of significant words, the division of English-language phraseological units with TIME component in structural terms into single-vertex, double-vertex and multi-vertex is presented. German-language phraseologies with TIME component were studied and classified according to the structural-semantic characteristics, according to which German phraseologies are divided into the following groups: pair words, idioms, winged expressions and proverbs.