Preservation of Lexical meanings in Stable Polylexical Units Components

Abstract

The effect of semantic links leads to the modification / non-modification of the lexical meanings of the components following the semantic influence. It has been proved that when a component retains its meaning, it (this meaning) can serve as a motivation for the signifier - the perception of the meaning of the stable polylexical unit (SPU). In these denominative SPUs the image is missing, and the motivated components can be both the modal verb and the noun. Moreover, these elements also include in their semic structure the semes of certain lexical and grammatical values. This gives denominative SPUs the ability to designate those realities in the surrounding world, which cannot be named monolexical correlations of SPUs. Preservation of lexical meanings in the components of stable polylexical units depends on several factors of a semasiological, etymological, and grammatical nature and which is manifested by keeping the meanings of one or more components of the SPU. When we speak of retaining the meanings of all SPU elements, we refer to the denominative polylexical units, which are manifested in Romanian by some set expressions, and when we mention the preservation of the meaning of only one or several components of stable polylexical units, we refer to phraseological expressions, which are connotative. In this case we can speak of the motivation of either total or partial stable denominative or connotative polylexical units.