This paper compares an attempt to identify the phraseological unit on the basis of the degree of semantic motivation of phrasal elements, originating in the Russian phraseological tradition, with ...various aspects of word combining as revealed in the corpus environment. The relativisation of relations between single word & multiword lexical units on the one hand & the semantically transparent & opaque phrases on the other broadens the subject-matter of phraseology to different types of language patterning & also offers dictionary solutions based on the contextual treatment of the lexical element. Figures, References. Adapted from the source document
The paper presents a brief overview of the history of the corpus approach in Slovenian language studies & the existing corpora of the Slovenian language. These corpora have provided an incentive for ...a series of thorough linguistic studies, both monolingual & contrastive; at the same time they are becoming an indispensable part of general linguistic research, especially in the field of lexical or lexicosemantic studies. In the second part of the paper, a case study illustrates one of the procedures in lexical corpus analysis: using selected examples, we demonstrate how it is possible to track changes in the lexis of the Slovenian language in the last decade of the twentieth century. Tables, Figures, References. Adapted from the source document
