Lexemes THEATER and STAGE in verbal forms of the Russian language

The article examines the semantic and structural features of verbal prepositional-case forms with the lexemes THEATRE and STAGE in the Russian language based on the Russian Language National Corpus (the main and newspaper subcorpuses). The work evaluates the frequency of verbal prepositional-case forms with the lexemes THEATRE and STAGE, and identifies the most common verbs that are part of the specified language units. The relevance of the article lies in the fact that it is in the paradigm of studying the lexical and semantic compatibility of units of the Russian language. The aim of the paper is to analyze the semantic features of the prepositional-case forms of the lexemes THEATRE and STAGE in verb combinations based on the Russian Language National Corpus material (the main and newspaper subcorpuses), to determine the degree of their stability, as well as the expressive potential of the prepositional-case forms of the mentioned lexemes. As a result, the frequency and structural characteristics of verb prepositional-case forms with the components THEATRE and STAGE were determined, as well as their role in the professional and everyday worldviews of native Russian speakers. The scientific novelty of the paper lies in the fact that it examines the phenomenon of lexical compatibility of the lexemes THEATRE and STAGE in verbal prepositional-case form of the modern Russian language. The focus is on the most frequent models of compatibility. The role of verbal combinations of prepositional-case forms with the lexemes THEATRE and STAGE in the professional and everyday language worldviews is revealed. This aspect reflects the specific features of the lexical system of the Russian language. The paper makes the comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon with reference to lexicographic materials (for example, the dictionary of lexical compatibility), as well as to the National Corpus of the Russian Language and its statistical tools for calculating the largest number of occurrences in the corpus of various verb combinations with the lexemes THEATRE and STAGE. The research methodology includes both methods of linguistic and lexicological analysis, as well as the methods of statistical analysis, and contextual and communicative analysis. Methods of lexicological analysis allow determining the list of verb combinations of prepositional-case forms with the lexemes TEATR and STAGE in the Russian language. When referring to the Russian Language National Corpus, the method of statistical analysis is also applied: the most common verb combinations are identified. Methods of contextual and communicative analysis allow identifying the role of verb combinations of prepositional-case forms with the above mentioned lexemes in everyday and professional worldviews. Furthermore, the methods of contextual and linguostylistic analysis allow determining the expressive potential of prepositional-case forms of the said lexemes.