SOME SEMANTIC-STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF ENGLISH PROVERBIAL CONSTRUCTIONS
Keywords:
proverb, proverbial construction, paremiology, semantics, structure, national language, etymology, meaning.Abstract
The present article is devoted to investigation of the semantic-structural features of English proverbs. The notion “proverb” is explained by the viewpoints of linguists in the sphere of paremiology, i.e. the branch of linguistics that studies proverbs and sayings. Theoretical analysis of the article is proved by examples of English proverbs.
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