HYPERO-HYPONYMIC RELATIONS IN ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGICAL STOCK

The given article describes semantic relations of English phraseological stock. It focuses on character- izing the hypero-hyponyms in English phraseology. It describes the difference between the hypero-hyponyms and terminology. The article explains the difficulty in distinguishing the composite terms and phraseologisms. The article investigates structural aspects of hyponymic lines in English phraseological stock. It describes multi- ple-layer hypero-hyponyms in English phraseology and states that this phenomenon occurs rarely. The article observes that most phraseologisms appeared in the process of folk thinking not scientific one. Phraseology is characterized by liberty and selectivity of naming