Phraseological Units with a Zoоnym Component in the Modern Russian Language

This work is devoted to the study of phraseological units containing a zoonym component in their structure. The article analyzes the corpus of zoonyms that are part of phraseological units, determines their phraseological activity. The concepts of the image of a phraseological unit and its internal form are divorced, the ratio of units with a transparent and opaque internal form is analyzed, the analysis of the semantic unity of the components of these units is carried out. The interpretative nature of phraseological units with a zoonym component is considered from the point of view of their belonging to different thematic groups, the quantitative composition of phraseological units in these groups is analyzed. Analysis of the structural organization describes the grammatical constructions that represent these phraseological units, reveals the most numerous of them.