Structural characteristics of business terminological phraseology with the ‘fund’ component

Along with the study of the general business lexicon, sports, medical, and media discourse have received special attention from scholars. Recently, scientific works related to the study of not just the business language that is characteristic of a number of professional discourse areas, but also to the study of the business terminology of a specific field of knowledge, particularly the terminology that is essentially phraseological, id est, its origin is based on a particular mechanism of meaning transference of the prototypical stable combination of words, such as metaphors, metonymies, synecdoches, hyperboles, and their combinations. This work deals with the quantitative analysis of the syntactic structure of business terminological phraseology that is used in the ECONOMY domain and includes the component ‘fund’. The actual importance of the paper consists in current demand of information about the structural organization of the phraseological terminology of business English. The novelty lies in the object of research – these are phraseological units with the fund component. The object of the study, comprising fifteen hundred contexts containing these terms, was extracted through a continuous sampling from Internet resources and, above all, from the national corpus of the American version of modern English. The subject of the study is to identify two-component terms of the economic sphere, to differentiate them according to the nature of their component composition and to determine their percentage ratio. With the view of getting to the research target, (a) a set of macro-paradigmatic linguistic methods is used alongside with (b) a number of non-paradigmatic and interdisciplinary methods and techniques of linguistics, namely: (a) the structural method with its inclusive techniques of componential and quantitative analysis, (b) the method of description and the method of phraseological identification initiated by A.V. Kunin confirmed by contextual analysis of corpora textual samples. The results of the research yields a set of syntagmatic models being characteristic of twocomponent PU-terms, and makes vivid their co-relation in the modern language of the ECONIMICS domain. Having theoretical and practical value, the result can be used in typological studies of economic terminology with a complete or partially meaning transference in their components.