Peculiarities of semantics and grammatical organization of phraseological units with the "zemlia" component

Abstract

The article examines the peculiarities of semantics and grammatical organization of phraseological units (further ‒ PUs) with the zemlia component. It is noted that both phraseological macro- and microsystems in Ukrainian linguistics began to be intensively studied only in the late 20th – early 21st c.
 The purpose of the proposed intelligence is to investigate the place of the PU microsystem with the zemlia component in the Ukrainian phraseology, to describe the semantics features, its grammatical organization representing this microsystem.
 The reference base was thesaurus and phraseological dictionaries of the Ukrainian language, internet sites, as well as the author’s own phraseological catalogue where 55 PUs are subject to analysis, the theoretical and methodological basis of research is the works of Ukrainian linguists, in which individual phraseological micro- and macro-systems are studied.
 The analysis of the PUs with zemlia component gave grounds to summarize: 1. the microsystem of the PUs with the zemlia component is relatively small, but rather diverse in its semantic features and grammatical organization; 2. for such PUs, as well as for the whole Ukrainian language in general, the phenomena of polysemy, synonymy and antonymy are characteristic phenomena; 3. the zemlia component in such PUs is used in all case forms, with the exception of the vocative case. Most of the PUs of this microsystem is formed with the zemlia component in the accusative singular case without a preposition (rarely): rvaty zemliu (tear up the earth) with prepositions v(u) (in(into)), ob (about), kriz’ (through): vrostaty v zemliu (grow into the ground (root itself)), lykhom ob zemliu (head the ground), yak kriz’ zemliu provalytysya (vanish into thin air), etc. (only 25 PUs); the least examples – in the genitive case of the plural: za trydev’yat’ zemel’ (go a long way (=go far, far away) (only 1 PU); 4. almost all syntactic structures in the microsystem of the PUs with the component ground are presented here as well as for the whole Ukrainian phraseology in general: a) PUs related to the subordinate phrase: toptaty zemliu (trample on the ground), z lytsya zemli (from the face of the earth), etc. b) PUs related to the word combinations: do zemli (to the earth), yak z-pid zemli (as from under the earth), etc.; c) PUs as comparatives: yak iz zemli vyrostatu (how to grow out of the ground), yak u zemliu vkopanyi (how to dig into the ground); d) PUs as a simple sentence (one-part and two-part): khoch zemliu yizh (even if you eat the Earth); azh zemlia stohne (the Earth groans), etc.; 5. PUs can also act in a sentence as a subject, predicate (simple, compound noun, compound verb), subordinate clause; 6. semantic features and grammatical peculiarities of such PUs should be a subject to run a separate investigation in comparative aspect.