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On the Forms of Actualizing Grammatical Categories in the Structure of a German Phraseological Unit

The article considers the grammatical characteristics of German phraseological units, highlights the dominant categorical grammatical features of nominal, verbal and verb-propositional phraseological units, and analyzes some possibilities for actualizing grammatical categories within a phraseological unit.

On the problem of semiotic nature of abbreviations and phraseological units

The article highlights a semiotic approach to the study of specific language units: abbreviations and phraseological units. The relation between the signifier and the signified helps to perceive the process
of the formation of new linguistic signs which can be both motivated and arbitrary. In both cases the asymmetry of a linguistic sign causes the appearance of either a new signifier (in abbreviation), or a new signified (in phraseology).

PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH NATIONAL-CULTURAL ELEMENTS OF SEMANTICS IN THE SPEECH OF MEDIATORS OF CONTEMPORARY GERMAN LANGUAGE

The article deals with linguistic and extralinguistic factors affecting the development and functioning of phraseological units with the national cultural component of semantics.