Lysenko O. Derivation Processes in German Phraseology (A Study of Phraseological Biblical Expressions).

The dissertation deals with peculiarities of phrasebuilding in the domain of phraseological biblical expressions as well as their lexicographic fixation in unilingual dictionaries of German. A phraseological unit is regarded as a conceptual and language entity, a unit of the linguistic world picture substratum. The process of phrasebuilding is a set of highest rank cogitative procedures. The conceptual and language mechanisms that underlie formation of phraseological biblical expressions are determined by the type of the unit under formation. Identity is the key notion for differentiating variation and derivation. The peculiarities of the phrasebuilding processes in German are determined by the sign properties of the given units. Lexicographic fixation of phraseological biblical expressions in German is considered to be a form of the linguistic world picture representation, its scholarly presentation. The phrasebuilding processes are not always reflected in vocabulary definitions.