ENGLISH COLLOCATIONS OF THE VERBS “TO BE”, “TO HAVE” AND “TO TAKE” AND THEIR EQUIVALENTS IN GERMAN, FRENCH AND ITALIAN LANGUAGES: LINGUISTIC–CULTURAL ASPECT

• Main Author: Anna Nikolaevna Panamaryova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Science and Innovation Center Publishing House 2013-10-01
• Series: Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
• Subjects: collocations, synlexis, linguistic world image, German, French, Italian languages, verbal semantics of activity
• Online Access: http://journal-s.org/index.php/sisp/article/view/1012

<p>The aim of this research is to find out conceptual characteristics of English, German, French, Italian languages world image. The subject of this paper is English collocations with the verbs “to be”, “to have” and “to take” and their equivalents in German, French and Italian languages. The task of this paper is to compare English collocations of the verbs “to be”, “to have” and “to take” and their equivalents in German, French and Italian languages in linguistic–cultural aspect. In Russian language studies such word groups are called “synlexis”. This term was coined by G. I. Klimovskaya, the professor ofTomskStateUniversity. The main method of the research is a comparative study of linguistic units. The conclusions made in the research are essential in the further study of European linguistic world image and can be used in textbooks on Cultural Linguistics.</p><p>The practical result of the research can be a cross-cultural collocation dictionary of some languages. Such a dictionary is important for linguists, translators and people studying foreign languages.</p><p><strong>DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-8-32">http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-8-32</a></strong></p>