A Typologically-Informed Methodology for Contrastive Analysis of Verbo-Nominal Predicative Collocations in Divergent Language Systems

Abstract

The article addresses the problem of crosslinguistic comparison of verbo-nominal stable collocations that occupy an intermediate position between free word combinations and phraseological units. The material includes scholarly works on contrastive linguistics and studies of these constructions in Germanic studies and Russian studies. It is established that linguistics lacks both a comprehensive picture of the functioning of these units and a universal system of criteria for delimiting them from adjacent phenomena. It is found that existing methods of contrastive analysis prove ineffective for their comparison. The aim of the study is to identify a prospective methodology for the comparative description of verbo-nominal predicative collocations in divergent languages (on the material of German and Russian). The relevance of the research is determined by the special significance of cross-linguistic studies for language pedagogy, lexicography, and natural language processing. The novelty lies in combining the principles of contrastive linguistics and typology. A methodology is proposed that combines unidirectional comparative analysis with reliance on a set of typological parameters as a specifically constructed benchmark for comparison. It is proven that this approach overcomes limitations associated with the intermediate status of the studied units, which creates a basis for conducting contrastive studies on other languages and improving machine algorithms.