Ponomarenko A. Phraseological Units with the Deminutive and Augmentative Component in Modern Ukrainian Language

The dissertation is devoted to the complex analysis of Ukrainian phraseological units with the deminutive and augmentative components. The role of various types of deminutives and augmentatives in making metaphorical notions of phraseological units has been defined, semantic-grammatical, structural-grammatical systematizations of authentic material have been done. The analysis and classification of phraseological units with deminutive and augmentative components made it possible to model their major semantic, semantic-grammatical and structural-grammatical types. The work is also dedicated to the investigation and description of the complex ways of phraseological units function in fiction texts. Two ways in which phraseological units are used in artistic speech of O. Hontchar, Н. Tyutyunnyk, P. Zahrebelniy, Y. Hutsalo, V. Shevchuk, M. Stelmakh, O. Syzonenko are determined on the basis of some factual material: 1) usual usage of phraseological units; 2) occasional usage of phraseological units.