Structural and Semantic Types of Collocations with the Noun 'Moment' in Contemporary English

Student: Savchenko Vladislava

Educational Programme: Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

The aim of the paper was to reveal the relationship between structural and semantic properties of the collocation with the noun 'moment' on the basis of data of Corpus of Contemporary English. To achieve this aim, we defined the notions of collocation, event and experientiality. Then we analyzed the etymology and the semantics of the noun 'moment' itself, provided the information about previous researches on the topic and finally, performed qualitative analysis of the coupus data. As the result, the connection between structure and semantics was confirmed only within the group of attributive quotations, while the other tendencies were reletively weak. However, the research confirmed that studied collocations turned colloquial model for usage of the native speakers of English.

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