The role of lexical-semantic classification of word combination components in English automotive engineering terminology and their collocability in the analysis of semantic-syntactic relationships between them

The article offers a lexical-semantic classification of the components of English two-component terms in the field of automotive industry. The peculiarities in collocability of the word combination components are revealed based on this classification. It is grounded that the distribution of the terminological word combination components among lexical-semantic groups is of importance for further research of the semantic-syntactic relationships in the word combinations. As a result, eleven lexical-semantic groups of nouns and five groups of adjectives, which are the components of English substantive-substantive and adjective-substantive automobile terminological combinations, are identified using the quantitative method. Most of the nouns are the names of particular objects. Adjectives describing the property of the object / material are the most frequent. More than one hundred lexical-semantic models of terminological word combinations have been revealed. Nouns naming a particular object and adjectives describing the property of the object/material/substance collocate best. It is concluded that the subject orientation and the category of process are significant for the domain under study. This study makes it possible to use the obtained results for the analysis of semantic-syntactic relationships among the components of terminological word combinations in the domain of automobile engineering.