SEMANTIC FACTORS PROVIDING PHRASEOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF THE ENGLISH ADJECTIVES
The lexical system of English is rightly recognized as one of the challenging problems in linguistics. The polysemy, i.e. the complexity of the semantic structure, in the words of scientists, linguists is an inherent feature of the word. Phraseological activity of the word is mostly due to the specificity of its semantics and to the fact that the greater the branched semantic structure of the word is the greater is its combinatorics. In the given study we do not aim at describing the semantic structures of the analyzed adjectives from the above point of view. The author focuses on the polysemy of the adjective in the modern English language being the factor affecting the activity of the given units as a whole and on phraseological activity, in particular.