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One must recall that lexicology deals with words, word-forming morphemes and word-groups. Words put together to form lexical units make phrases or word-groups. It is often argued that the meaning of word groups is also dependent on some extra-linguistic factors вЂ“ on the situation in which word groups are habitually used by native speakers. We have to distinguish between the structural meaning of a given type of word groups as such and the lexical meaning of its constituents. The structural pattern of word groups is the carrier of a certain semantic component not necessarily dependent on the actual lexical meaning of its members (school grammar вЂ“ В«grammar which is taught in schoolВ», grammar school вЂ“ В«a type of schoolВ»). Word groups possess not only the lexical meaning, but also the meaning conveyed mainly by the pattern of arrangement of their constituents.

These meanings of the component words in such word groups are mutually interdependent and inseparable (blind man вЂ“ В«a human being unable to seeВ», blind type вЂ“ В«the copy isnвЂ™t readable). But itвЂ™s not a mere sum total of all these meanings! Polysemantic words are used in word groups only in 1 of their meanings.

The meaning of the word groups is motivated by the meanings of the component members and is supported by the structural pattern. The lexical meaning of the word groups is the combined lexical meaning of the component words.

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Free word groups and phraseological unitsДЄ word-group is the largest two-facet lexical unit comprising more than one word but expressing one global concept.

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