V dannom issledovanii chitatelyu predlagaetsya avtorskaya semanticheskaya klassifikatsiya frazeologicheskoy sistemy, v kotoroy govoritsya, chto vo frazeologii dolzhny izuchat"sya tol"ko ustoychivye slovosochetaniya, imeyushchie tu ili inuyu stepen" idiomatichnosti: sil"nuyu (frazeologicheskie srashcheniya), srednyuyu (frazeologicheskie edinstva) i slabuyu (frazeologicheskie sochetaniya). Ustoychivye oboroty, obladayushchie «nulevoy» idiomatichnost"yu, vyvodyatsya za predely frazeologii i dolzhny izuchat"sya vo frazistike, zanimayushchey promezhutochnoe polozhenie mezhdu frazeologiey i sintaksisom. Frazeologicheskaya paradigmatika, vklyuchayushchaya voprosy frazeologicheskoy variantnosti i sinonimii, a takzhe frazeologicheskoy antonimii imeet shirokoe rasprostranenie v proizvedeniyakh M.A. Sholokhova i sluzhit sredstvom yarkoy izobrazitel"noy kharakteristiki personazhey i razlichnykh situatsiy. Analizu podverglas" takzhe i strukturnaya sostavlyayushchaya frazeologicheskoy sistemy, vklyuchayushchaya sravnitel"nye ustoychivye oboroty, paremiologicheskie ustoychivye edinitsy, a takzhe FE tipa sochetaniy slov. Krome togo, paremii my rassmotreli s tochki zreniya ikh ekstralingvisticheskikh svoystv.