Phraseology lecture 13 phraseology and phraseological units

In modern linguistics, there is considerable confusion about the terminology associated with these word-groups

• Most Russian scholars use the term “phraseological units” introduced by academician V.V. Vinogradov.
• The term “idiom” used by western scholars has comparatively recently found its way into Russian phraseology but is applied mostly to only a certain type of phraseological unit as it will be clear from further explanations.
• There are some other terms: set-expressions, set-phrases, phrases, fixed word-groups, collocations.