NOUN ‘SYSTEM’ COMPITABILITY MODELS IN THE TEXTS “AUTOMATION HEAT AND POWER PROCESSES”
O.Yu. Zaitseva, O.V. Gvozd, Yuliana DOBROVOLSKA · Тrаnscarpathian Philological Studies · 2023
The most important differential features of LSVs, characterizing their functioning in a specific area of scientific discourse and allowing a more complete description of the semantic structure as a whole is syntactic compatibility which is commonly understood as the ability of a word to be combined in a sentence with certain elements, both subordinate (kernel connection) and non-subordinate to it, and where it itself acts as a subordinate element (adjunct connection).In the article devoted to the formation of an inventory of lexical-semantic variants of the most frequent noun 'system', which are implemented in the texts of technical fields of knowledge, the corresponding LSVs are presented.They are studied in two aspect: the aspect of language and the one of speech, i.e. the lexical-semantic variants of the word 'system' identified in the texts are compared with the definitions fixed in the entry of the noun 'system' of the most authoritative standard dictionary of the English language -Webster's, and then their interaction is considered.As the material for the study the text corpus of the specialty "Automation heat and power process" was chosen, which was compiled on the basis of the following scientific journals in the UK and the USA: Power; Power Engineering; Process Engineering.The total size of the AHPP text corpus was 200 thousand tokens.The most frequent lexical-semantic variant of the noun 'system' is "installation".Its description of the syntactic compatibility of this LSV shows that this word has wide syntactic compatibility in the AHPP sublanguage since it is used in all constructions possible for a noun.The analysis of the less frequent lexical-semantic variant "computer" of the word 'system' also has quite wide combinative capabilities, can be used in almost all constructions inherent to nouns (excluding verb combinations, where it does not show its high frequency of use).The word 'system' in this meaning acts as a unit with a broad conceptual basis.The results of the study of LSV "station, system of stations" of the noun 'system' determine that the share of usage of this word with LSV "station, system of stations" in the total number of occurrence of the word 'system' is low, only 7%.The remaining seven LSVs of the noun 'system' fixed in entry of the Normative Webster's dictionary are not analyzed in this article, since their quantitative values are too small.So the affirmation of some linguists-theoreticians about the sharp reduction of semantic structures of words functioning in engineering texts may be considered fair.