THE SUBSTANTIVE SYNTAGMA IN AN ATTRIBUTIVE FUNCTION AND IN LEXICOGRAPHY PRACTICE

Liljana Ivanova Tomova

Abstract


The subject of the present article is the collocation NOUN + NOUN in English, as it is one of the most common ways to show the attributive relationships in this language. In terms of semantics, the studied substantive collocations (NOUN + NOUN) can be compared to attributive collocations (ADJECTIVE + NOUN), in which the relative derived adjective plays the role of an attribute, as it is in Bulgarian. An attributive syntagma (NOUN + NOUN), consisting of two nouns placed one after the other, expresses one notion, nevertheless such syntagmas were rendered in Bulgarian with a collocation of an adjective and noun (ADJECTIVE + NOUN), or even with one word. The results of this research can be applied in the practical mastering of English.


Keywords


syntagma, attributive function, lexicography, syntactic relation, compound

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Date of publication: 2013-05-08 00:00:00
Date of submission: 2015-07-31 01:34:54


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