This article concerns categorical semantics of number. This grammar category is regarded as a unity between meaning and form. Opinions of Russian and Spanish linguists on this problem are represented in this article. The languages are compared in the aspect of semantic field and lexical groups. The research is based on Russian and Spanish appellation of clothes and accessories.

The results presented in the article are based on detailed analyses of acts of speech where the aim of the utterance doesnt coincide with the form of the sentence.

This article is dedicated to the study of the Spanish idioms with such words in their composition, which designate internal organs and parts of the human body: kidney, liver, eggs (guts). In Spanish, these idioms are connected, first of all, with the concept «courage» and other basic traits of mans nature.

The paper discusses collocations called by the author as «temporary collocations». The temporary collocations (TC) under discussion are understood as expressions with one marked component, being peripheral to the mainstream of idioms and phrasal expressions, which enables us to treat the analyzed TC in a narrow slightly idiomatic meaning. Quite a few examples borrowed from the authentic English newspapers and magazines are used to demonstrate the relationship between the event and the emergence of the TC; also the discourse definition is provided with a focus on interdependence between the TC and the discourse.

In the article the elements of fire as a fragment of a color picture of the world of I.A. Bunin, functioning in the conditions of art prose are exposed to the analysis and the description. The structure, classification, sphere denotations coloration according to a smooth surface principle is advanced.

This article is about theoretical and practical analysis of forming speech association for the different- cultures environment child. It gives description the main stage of forming childs speech in a few languages at the same time. All of them confirm of examples from own practices. The article is for philologists and language teachers.