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national characteristics of semantics of phraseological units,
which pertain to one language, can only be realized in com-
parative phraseological researches within different languages.
Numerous contrastive and idiomatic
studies that aim at
detection and explanation of similarities and differences of
the units under consideration more commonly come to a par-
ticular analysis of some specific phraseological units or their
groups and categories which are distinguished by one or an-
other limited feature. Attempts to define broad phraseological
universals, to make considerable typological generalizations
on basis of the research conducted
even on two languages,
not to speak of multilingual material, were made by such re-
nowned Russian and foreign linguists as V.M. Mokienko,
A.D. Reichschtein, U.P. Solodub and others.
Linguistic universology does not only deal with separate or
genetically and typologically connected languages, it studies
every language of the
world without exception, regarding it
as special manifestations of the common human language.
Universology is interested in linguistic universals, i.e. gen-
eral and essential characteristics which are displayed in all or
most languages of the world. These characteristics are pos-
tulated by a researcher in the form of hypotheses, which are
tested afterwards on the empirical
material of particular lan-
guages. In other words, linguistic universology represents for
the most part a theoretical and deductive subject. Most lin-
guists reasonably consider the general language theory to be
uppermost the theory of linguistic universals. The linguistic
universal is a feature which is
detected in almost all lan-
guages of the world. A statement (an assertion) about such
regularity inherent in human language is often called a uni-
versal. The idea of universality of some definite phenomena in
languages was never alien to the scholars who had applied to
the issue of the entity of language. The predecessors of the re-
search in this area were ancient grammarians. In later times
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