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Abstract: The article explores the comparative chronological and ideographical analysis of collocations with the semantics of blagopoluchie / neblagopoluchie (well-being / ill-being) in the Russian language, as well as the issue of representation of idiomatic ma-terial in a thesaurus. The research has been conducted while creating the Universal Thesaurus of the Russian Language (a Ural Federal University project). The material has been selected from the Russian National Corpus (the tool to search collocations in the main corpus). The author has carried out a comparative analysis of collocations with the words “blagopoluchie”, “blagopoluchnyy”, “blagopo-luchno” and their antonyms with the NE- prefix, formed by the end of the 18th century, and further, into the 19th, 20th and 21st centu-ries. The study has discovered the main grammatical collocation models, and analyzed the definional and subjective characteristics of well-being. The ideographical analysis and the summarization of the material under study indicate that by the beginning of the 19th century, the main axiological features of well-being and its personal and public as well as spatial-temporal characteristics had already developed in the Russian language. The 19th century focuses the attention on the material, personal and family aspects of well-being, as well as on a fortunate conclusion of business and travel. In the 20th century, the external, economic features of well-being come into the foreground. The 21st century focuses on the psychological and socio-economic aspects of well-being, but it is still too early to judge about the direction the development of collocations will assume. The contexts of the words with the seman-tics of neblagopoluchie (ill-being) reflect similar vectors, although the range of collocations in the corpus is not absolutely relevant for effective exploration of ill-being. The author has formulated the principles of collocation selection for lexicographic description in a thesaurus – purely formal (statistical values) and linguistic proper. The latter include the evaluation of the degree of idiomaticity, the presence of one-type combinability of the antonymic words, as well as semantic (hyponymic, synonymic, antonymic, etc.) connec-tions between the units of a thesaurus. The study has made conclusions about the inclusion of multi-word lexical units into various lexicographic resources and the influence of lexical combinability on the development and objectification of conceptual analysis.

About the author(s) :

Mikhail Yu. Mukhin
Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin
(Ekaterinburg, Russia)
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8716-9260

The research was carried out with financial support of the Russian Science Foundation project No. 22-18-00352, https://rscf.ru/en/project/22-18-00352.

Publication Timeline:

Date of receipt: 29.04.2024; date of publication: 30.10.2024

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