systemic structure of words:

 Sentences-make up communicative level

 Words-constitute lexical level
 Morphemes-form morphological level
 Phonemes-constituents of phonological level.

Lexical units are multi-faceted linguistic units, which are characterized at least by
2 features: meaning and form. This leads to the phonemes being ousted out of the
vocabulary as they don’t bear any signification but fulfill differentiating function,
communicative role and performance of linguistic units in communication: words’ and
morphemes’ function in communication is to serve as ready-made units at the speakers’
disposal. Communication- a creative process with ready-made language units. The
results of the process- utterances. Lexical units are reproduced ready-made
linguistic units which possess both form and meaning. According to this definition-
classify not only words but morphemes as lexical units. Existence of fixed expressions:
greetings, proverbs, sayings, quotations, etc. which are sentences in structure but are
reproduced in speech- the lexicon of a language must
include words, morphemes, ready-made word combinations and utterances, thus
becoming a system of various types of lexical units.