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The classification system of phraseological units devised by this prominent scholar is considered by some linguists of today to be out-dated, and yet its value is beyond doubt because it was the first classi-fication system which was based on the semantic principle. It goes without saying that semantic characteristics are of immense impor-tance in phraseological units. It is also well known that in modern research they are often sadly ignored. That is why any attempt at studying the semantic aspect of phraseological units should be appre-ciated.
The classification system of phraseological units devised by this prominent scholar is considered by some linguists of today to be out-dated, and yet its value is beyond doubt because it was the first classi-fication system which was based on the semantic principle. It goes without saying that semantic characteristics are of immense impor-tance in phraseological units. It is also well known that in modern research they are often sadly ignored. That is why any attempt at studying the semantic aspect of phraseological units should be appre-ciated.
ferred meaning show the weakest cohesion between their compo-nents. The more distant the meaning of a phraseological unit from the current meaning of its constituent parts, the greater is its degree of semantic cohesion. Accordingly, Vinogradov classifies phraseologi-cal units into three classes: phraseological combinations, unities and fusions (R. фразеологические сочетания, единства и сращения). [9]