Modern Russian phraseological pattern "ни А ни Б" (neither A nor B)

The numerous definitions of phraseological system,classifications of phraseological units consider not only the defined composition of those units, but also the laws of their formation andfunctioning in the modern Russian language, their features and relations between the components. Though the problem ofphraseologisms is well developed in Russian and world linguistics, phraseological units in the aspect of morphology and syntax are notstudied enough. The phraseological unit construction model "ни А ни Б" (neither A nor B) is studied in the article, all the phraseologicalunits of this pattern are adduced (in accordance with The Phraseological Dictionary of Russian Language, edited by A.I. Fedorov). Theanalysis of these phraseologisms has shown, that components ни...ни (neither...nor ) are invariable, constant, but variable componentsmay have synonymous and antonymous relations, may be expressed with different parts of speech, which forms various patternmeanings of phraseologisms, constructed upon one and the same pattern. Besides the interaction of variable and invariable components,the manner of filling in the pattern is of great importance in the creating of a special structure, form of a pattern, neither related to syntaxnor to phraseological model. Every phraseological pattern has common independent meanings, which apply to all the phraseologisms,created upon the phraseological pattern. Big stylistic stratum consists of bright, emotional-expressive phraseologisms, which is causedby their picturesqueness, usage of expressive language means: they become widespread in the belletristic literature. A lot ofphraseologisms of this phraseological pattern concern colloquial language. They are usually used in common language or in thebelletristic literature. It should be noted that a question of putting a comma in phraseologisms of this phraseological pattern, is open anddisputable. The structure of these phraseologisms coincides with the structure of free word combinations or sentences, containing acomma inside of them, or on the junction with the other words in the sentence. There is unconformity in writing of somephraseologisms, probably, it can be explained by a rather great variety of elements of these word combinations. Besides primordialRussian phraseological units of speech, based on free word combinations with this pattern, new ones continue to appear in the Russianlanguage, which proves that this phraseological pattern is highly productive.

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