Abstract
Our studies on phrasemes have confirmed their high frequency in modern Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages and their usefulness in creating new realities, recognizing new cultural and social phenomena, but above all their appropriateness in naming new phenomena. Phrasemes are part of cultural, sociological, political, and economic changes. They create a bridge between science and society. On closer examination, phrasemes reveal their complex structure as resulting from various linguistic mechanisms. Phraseology is in the fast lane of linguistic communication, coining new forms that reflect the patterns of other languages, e.g., Polish compounds and combining forms derived as calques from German and French. What is important in phraseme formation processes is the mechanism of supplementing the original phraseme with further elements and its transformation. Due to the universality and usefulness of phrasemes in handling the phenomena of the modern world, they successfully play their role in modern Polish and other Slavic languages, as well as in Germanic and Romance languages, and hence these languages are in fact phraseme-based languages.
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