Functional and semantic characteristics of phraseological units with the bauur somatism in the Karachay-Balkar language

The article examines the features of the functional and semantic organization of phraseological units of the Karachay-Balkar language with the somatism bauur “liver”. The analysis of the phra-seological units of the phraseosemantic field under study, which contain the somatism bauur “liv-er”, in turn, allows us to conclude about the universality and national identity of the studied units. Phraseological units with a somatic component most accurately describe various aspects of human activity. The analysis of the linguistic material also makes it possible to conclude that integrity of meaning, imagery, emotionality, expressiveness, etc. characterizes somatic phraseological units. For the most part, verbal turns represent somatic phraseological units. It is revealed that phraseo-logical units with the bauur component in the Karachay-Balkar language are widely used to ex-press various emotional and expressive meanings. It is also established that bauur is a component of a significant number of somatic phraseological units that represent such universal categories as condition, character traits, attitude, perception, movement, behavior.