Краткий курс лекций по лексикологии английского языка для студентов неязыковых вузов. Москалёва Е.В. - 11 стр.

            In other words, by this term we understand the position
            which lexical unit occupies or may occupy in the text or in the
            flow of speech. It is observed that a certain component of
            the word- meaning is described when the word is identified
            distributionally.
                  e. g. In the sentence: The boy__________ home .              The
            missing word is easily identified as a verb. It may be “came,
            ran, went, goes”, but not as an adverb or a noun, or an adjective.
                  Thus, we see that the component of meaning that is
            distributionally identified is actually the part-of-speech meaning.
            It is also observed that in a number of cases words have
            different lexical meanings in different distributional patterns.
                  e. g. The verb “to treat” has different lexical meanings in
            “to treat smb kindly” and “to treat smb to ice-cream”.
              The interdependence of distribution and meaning can be also
            observed at the level of word-groups.
                  e. g. It is only the distribution of completely identical lexical
            units but arranged on the reverse that differentiates the meaning
            – water tap and tap water.

                                 Transformational analysis
                  Transformational analysis in lexicological investigations
            may be defined as repatterning (representing, reorganization) of
            various distributional structures in order to discover difference
            or sameness of meaning of practically identical distributional
            patterns. As distributional patterns are in a number of cases
            polysemantic transformational procedures are of help not only
            in the analysis of semantic sameness / difference of the lexical
            units but also in the analysis of the factors that account for
            their polysemy. Word-groups of identical distributional
            structure when repatterned show that the semantic relations
            between words and consequently the meaning may be
            different.
                  e.g. A pattern “possessive pronoun”+”noun” (his car, his
            failure, his arrest, his kindness). According to transformational
            analysis the meaning of each word-group may be represented as:

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