Fixed phrase schemes with a compulsory component-conjunction in the contemporary Spanish language

This article is devoted to the research problem of one of the syntactic phraseological unit classes -fixed phrase schemes. The study is accomplished on the basis of the contemporary Spanish language. The research significance is determined by the insufficiency of the fixed phrase schemes theory and lack of fixed phrase schemes description in colloquial speech, and by the essential pragmatic potential of such schemes that allows communicants to realize diverse author's intentions in speech. Fixed phrase schemes with a compulsory component-conjunction are described in structural, semantic, etymological, paradigmatic, syntagmatic and phraseological aspects. Fixed phrase schemes with a compulsory component-conjunction are composite: they contain two compulsory components: unchangeable and changeable. The compulsory unchangeable element of fixed phrase schemes of this group is represented by the conjunctions si, que и sino. The compulsory component of the conjunctive origin does not have paradigmatic qualities due to the specific character of the synsemantic word status. The compulsory changeable component is represented by a verbal lexeme only; that is why it does not have a lexical-grammatical paradigm. Its incomplete morphological paradigm is represented by two forms of the verb. Syntactic relations in fixed phrase schemes are essentially obsolete, which determines the unchangeable order of the structural elements, when the compulsory component is prepositive. Fixed phrase schemes contain both dictum and modus propositions. They are used to express diverse subjective and modal shades of meaning; that is they influence the recipient directly. Fixed phrase schemes with a compulsory component-conjunction are characterized by such features as repeatability, stability, structural and semantic integrity, idiomaticity, expressivity and stylistic markedness. These characteristics are integral for all fixed phrase schemes; however, they differ in each fixed phrase scheme. The most peculiar feature is idiomaticity that can show in several dimensions: functional (the meaning of exclamation/declaration is not concluded from the formal organization of the fixed phrase scheme); semantic (the modus proposition is not formally expressed in the fixed phrase scheme); stylistic (the fixed phrase scheme is characterized as colloquial while its motivating basis is neutral). In general, it should be stated that fixed phrase schemes with a compulsory component-conjunction correspond to their status of the phraseological language subsystem units. They are one of the most effective means of colloquial speech and allow the speaker to realize his or her versatile communicative intentions.

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