Research on Phraseologisms in the Eastern European Linguistics

Sažetak

The article is devoted to the analysis of few psycholinguistic pieces of research on phraseological units which are important
for linguistics. These studies describe how phraseological units, which are considered in their functional aspect as operational
speech units, blocks of perception and reproduction of stable expressions, can function in human utterances. It has been discovered that in terms of speech competence two groups of phraseological expressions are distinguished: (1) phraseologisms of
communicative nature, which are predicative phrases equivalent to a sentence, as they form a complete utterance and express a
certain judgment; (2) phraseological expressions of a nominative nature, which are a combination of words identical only to a
certain part of a sentence, or act as a verbal form of a particular concept and, as words, they perform a nominative function in
the language (Shanskyi, 1968). It is established that semantic and stylistic nuances have been taken into account in the classifications of phraseological units.