LACK OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS IN THE MODERN LEXICOGRAPHY

Abstract

The article exаmines the notion of the corpus as the new methodology for linguists. The role of a representative corpus in qualitative and quantitative analysis of linguistic phenomena is discussed. The importance of the corpus linguistics is revealed. The importance of copora to language study is aligned to the importance of empirical data. Empirical data enable the linguist to make objective statements, rather than those which are subjective, or based upon the individual’s own internalised cognitive perception of language. The results of the linguistic research of the parent nouns denoting instrument which are converted into verbs and the list of frequency of the composits with lexeme key are given (based on the British National Corpus (BNC).