Structural and semantic features of binomials in naval terminology

this article presents the theoretical aspects of exploring one of the types of collocations – binomials. A number of foreign and domestic studies on this problem are considered. An attempt is made to identify the most significant features of binomial combinations. They serve as a basis for the implemented analysis of structural-semantic forms of binomials in naval terminology; the authors characterise how key components are linked and specify the principles of their succession. The practical part presents the results of the analysis of 178 binomial units identified by continuous sampling in the instructional literature in profile 26.05.04 “Application and operation of technical systems of surface ships and submarines”. The types and subtypes of binomials are considered in terms of their semantics as well as the frequency of occurrence of their components in the Russian National Corpus. The authors substantiate the significance of the present work for teaching the professional language and describe the methodology and results of the experiment showing that the memorisation and recognition of binomial terms takes place much faster and easier than that of the terms having no collocative variants.

terminology, collocations, phrasemes, binomials, binomial formations, binomial structure