Introduction 5
1. Basic features of phraseological units 7
1.1. The essence of the phraseology 7
1.2. The basic criteria of phraseological units 8
1.3. Phraseology as a Subsystem of Language 18
1.4. Some problems of the diachronic approach to phraseological units 19
1.5. Lingvocultural aspects of phraseological units 21
2. Classifications of phraseological units 23
2.1. Semantic classification of phraseological units 23
2.2. Structural classification of phraseological units 23
2.3. Syntactical classification of phraseological units 24
2.4. Contextual classification of phraseological units 26
2.5. Prof. Kunin's classification for phraseological units 26
3. Structural and semantic analysis of phraseological units containing phytonyms in English and Russian languages. 31
CONCLUSION 79
List of literature 81