SEMANTIC GROUPS OF VERBAL PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH THE MEANING OF A SPECIFIC ACTIVITY

Abstract

The author explores individual verbal phraseological units’ meanings, the formation of the semantic structure of the subcategory of activity and individual structural and semantic groups. The main method of this study was the method of semantic identification. The methodological base consists of the works of leading Russian and foreign linguists in phraseology and lexicology. The research material consists of factual material from modern phraseographic sources, as well as the author's card-file of verbal phraseological units. The author describes mono-semantic verbal phraseological units with the meaning of social activity, movement and displacement in space, as well as the ones with the meaning of specific physical actions aimed at satisfying the most important physical (physiological) needs. The pattern of nouns with the meaning of a specific object as a product of activity functioning as an object of the studied units is substantiated. It is established that within the framework of structural-semantic groups and semantic subgroups, verbal phraseological units with the meaning of a specific activity have synonymous relationships. The results obtained can be applied in the courses of lectures and seminars on the modern Belarusian language, as well as on the text linguistics and cultural studies.