Syntactic Idioms and Precedent Phenomena: Intersection Zones

Background: One examined mainly structural and semantic features of syntactic idioms so far. The pragmatic dimension of these original units that are on the verge of syntax and phraseology, has not been highlighted properly in the scientific literature, so it needs theoretical understanding. The combination of syntactic idiom and phraseological phenomenon refers to the communication techniques impacting on message recipient. Purpose: to analyze the intersection zones of syntactic idioms and precedent phenomena. Results: Analysis of the collected factual material allows to distinguish two areas of interpenetration of syntactic idioms and precedent units: 1) construction of expression according to the phraseologized model, within which the position of variable component is filled by the precedent name or precedent expression; 2) the model of sentence itself is precedent, and lexical content does not comply with generally known one that does not affect on understanding of model content...