OCCASIONAL UNITS: ESSENCE, CLASSIFICATION, SPECIFIC FEATURES OF WORD FORMATION AND FUNCTIONS IN LITERARY TEXTS

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of one of the important branchesof modern linguistics – the phenomenon of occasional units. The theoretical foundations of theconcept of an occasional unit, its lexical, phraseological, and syntactic manifestations, wordformationmechanisms, and stylistic functions in literary and journalistic texts are considered. In thestudy, the materials of the Uzbek language were studied in comparison with theoretical approachesin world linguistics. Conclusions have been developed regarding the lexicographic registration ofoccasional units and the determination of their place in