Study of phrases andphraseological units from strucrural andsemantic aspects Phraseology as a linguistic disciplineEquivalence of phraseological units to a word. Various views about difference between a word and phraseological unitsProverbs and sayings as pragmatic phraseological unitsand their features and functionsPhraseological units borrowed fromother languagesWays of forming phraseological unitsThe prototype of phraseological units and simple shiftof meaning