The problem of an hierarchical structure of the category of case is being raised in the article, which also deals with the criteria and goals of its study. The review of different attitudes to semantic organization of the category of case is also given in the paper, the principles of structuring the category are considered.

The article deals with structural, semantic and functional features of one of the idiomatic constructions types — sentences with lost lexical meanings of components.

The article deals with the problem of arabic Islamic words usage in Russian and English news stories in the context of their actualization and linguacultural aspects of their translation.

In this paper, a phenomenon of Common Czech in respect to Standard Czech is regarded. Main features of Common Czech are described. Linguistic situation in Czech Republic is compared to the classical diglossia situation.

The author of the article has been writing English entry examinations for PFUR for over a decade. In this article she analyses the structure and contents of the English language entry examination for prospective students of Linguistics at the Faculty of Philology. The requirements for the entry written test are set by the State standards of complete secondary education for foreign languages at the level of a major subject. The PFUR entry examination has always been written in accordance with recommendations of the Education and Science Ministry and the Federal Institute of Pedagogical Assessment.

In this paper, by analyzing the French phraseological units with components-somatism revealed information about national and cultural peculiarities of objectification of certain organs of the human body involved in the process of drinking in the French culture.

The article deals with the problem of song discourse in lingvocultural aspect.

The article deals with some peculiarities of feminization of professional denominations in Quebec national variant of French (on the basis of modern periodicals)