Syntactic Phraseology in the Modern Russian Language (Exemplified by Constructions with the Element to the Point)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the controversial phenomenon of syntactic idiom. The peculiarity of these units is that, on the one hand, they have the main features of the sentence; on the other hand, they are characterized by phraseological nature. In their composition there are components of two types: constant, defining the construction itself and being the exponents of meaning and variable, the words of the categorematic parts of speech which are lexically free. Such a composition of syntactic idioms suggests that phraseological sentences are partially reproduced. The analysis of existing approaches to its understanding allows specifying a number of differential features as well as proposing a working definition of syntactic phraseology. The conducted analysis of lexicographical description and semantics interpretation of the construction with the element “to the point” confirmed the complex nature of the studied linguistic phenomenon and revealed the factors determining its interpretative potential.