Abstract:
The history of composite names researching dates back to the names of M. V. Lomonosov, N. I. Grech, I. I. Sreznevsky, F. F. Fortunatov, A. A. Shakhmatov, Ch. Bally, L.V. Shcherba. Vinogradov's doctrine considering these phrases as one of numerous and productive types of phraseological units served in the basis for further composite names study under fundamentally different angles of view treating them as phraseological units or non-phraseological units either elements occupying an “average place between phraseological units and variable word combinations”. This is explained by a number of objective and subjective nature reasons, main of which refers to the semantic, structural and functional heterogeneity of linguistic units under study, their intensive interaction with vocabulary strata of various functioning types, lack of united viewpoint on phraseology and different understanding as to the terminological apparatus and phraseology basic units.
