The Phenomenon of the Motivation of Words and Phraseologisms as an Object of Lexicology

1. The motivation of words and phraseological units, and hence motivational relations, is a linguistic universality. 2. In the lexical and phraseological composition of a large number of languages, motivational words make up a large part of the lexis. 3. Motivated words, phraseological units and related lexical processes are generated by one of the main trends in language development ‒ the trend towards the motivation of the linguistic sign. 4. One of the basic tasks of lexicology is the study of the lexis as a system. Motivational relations are a type of systemic relations of lexical units, namely ‒ the type of epidigmatic relations, the analysis of which is only at the beginning. 5. The motivational relations that present the essence of the phenomenon of motivation, unlike other systemic relations, e.g. synonymic, antonymic, paronymic, variational, have a general character