ON SOME ASPECTS OF CORPUS APPROACH TO IDIOMS

Abstract

The article is aimed at examining the lines of phraseological studies that can gain advantage from including corpus data into the focus of researchers’ attention. The article relies on the corpus, semantic, structural and conceptual analysis of idioms containing the names of five body parts / organs as their components. The frequency of these idioms, their usage with possessive pronouns as variable components and the relevance of corpus data for conceptual modelling are considered. The basic results of the undertaken research concern the irrefutable value of corpus data for practical, i.e. lexicographic and teaching, purposes in the description of idioms, as well as for its theoretical importance for the simulation of conceptual constructs represented by idioms.

Keywords

• идиома
• корпус
• корпусный анализ
• n-грамма
• частотность
• idiom
• corpus
• corpus analysis
• n-gram
• frequency