Краткий курс лекций по лексикологии английского языка для студентов неязыковых вузов. Москалёва Е.В. - 10 стр.

            1) “room” - denoting “space” as in “take less room, not
            enough room to do smth.”; 2) part of a house as in “sitting-
            room”; 3) used in plural = lodgings as in “to get rooms”.
            Statistical analysis shows that most frequently the word is used in
            its second meaning – 83% of all occurrences of the word in
            different texts, 12% of all takes its first meaning – “space”, and
            only 2% takes the third meaning of the word.

                              Immediate constituents analysis
                   The theory of Immediate constituents was originally
            elaborated as an attempt to determine the ways in which lexical
            units are relevantly related to one another. It was discovered that
            combinations of units are usually structured into hierarchial
            sets of binary constructions.
                  e. g. In the word-group “a black dress in severe style “ we
            do not relate the indefinite article “a” to adjective “black”,
            “black” to “dress”, “dress” to “in”, “in” to “severe”, “severe” to
            “style”. We set up a structure which may be represented as “a
            black dress” and “in severe style”.
                  Thus, the fundamental aim of immediate constituents
            analysis is to segment a set of lexical units into two maximally
            independent sequences and these maximally independent
            sequences are called immediate constituents. The further
            segmentation of immediate constituents results in ultimate
            constituents, which means that further segmentation is
            impossible for no meaning can be found.
                  e. g. The ultimate constituents of the phrase given are “a”,
            ”black”, “dress”, “ in”, “severe”, “style”.
                  This method of analysis is extremely fruitful in
            discovering the derivational structure of words.

                                  Distributional analysis
                  Distributional analysis in its various forms is commonly
            used nowadays. By the term “distribution” we understand the
            occurrence of a lexical unit relative to another lexical units
            of the same levels: words to words, morpheme to morphemes.

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