3.3.Of specific interest are also the units which by their structural characteristics remind of the nominalized complexes mostly characteristic for incorporative languages:

-I don’t want to break this marriage up but I like her youth, her animal-like behaviour and don’t- give- -a- damn attitude.

- Perhaps this ‘What’s his name’ will prepare us cocoa’

- She looked at him with a move-if-you-dare expression”

At present the idea of intermediate levels continues to be fruitful and actual because any living language is subject to constant changes conditioned equally by its internal processes and extralinguistic influences. The cases of a borderline position in linguistic status of linguistic signs are too numerous and prove once again that the human language is flexible and dynamic in its nature. Another thing is that to recognize the transition of these signs to another language level is a great responsibility and needs special investigation to prove such theoretical position and provide it with sufficient grounds.

Topics for comprehension check and class discussion.

1.Lexicological level and its composition;

2.The notion of a lexeme;

3. Intermediate levels and the units of an intermediate nature;

4. The principles of semantic classification;

5. Phraseological collocations;

6. Phraseological unities;

7.Phraseological fusions.

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N.B. To each question you are to pick up authentic examples!

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