CREATING AN INVENTORY OF METAPHORICAL COLLOCATIONS IN THE CROATIAN LANGUAGE – THE EXAMPLE OF THE NOUN GODINA

Abstract

The subject of this paper are collocational bonds with one component which has a figurative sense, that is, metaphorical collocations. The initial hypothesis is that their semantic and pragmatic description can contribute to a better understanding of this multi-word combination, the meaning of which is formed through language use. For this purpose, as part of a scientific research project, an inventory of metaphorical collocations will be created using SketchEngine. The focus of this paper is to present a detailed procedure for creating an inventory based on the example of one noun – the noun godina, which is the most frequent in the hrWaC corpus of the Croatian language, which makes it a frequent base in collocations and thus an important source of data. The obtained collocational profiles of this noun are analyzed from the semantic and pragmatic aspect. The analysis provides insights into which grammatical relations, that is morphosyntactic constructions, are productive in terms of metaphorical collocations and creating their inventory: the combination of adjective functioning as a collocate + noun functioning as a base and verb functioning as a collocate + noun functioning as a base. In addition, a number of semantic and pragmatic peculiarities
important for determining the metaphorical collocations and creating their inventory as well as for gaining insights into the regularities of collocational bonding based on observed recurrent patterns have been identified. The aim of this paper is to determine the necessary methodological steps in the development of the planned inventory of metaphorical collocations in the Croatian language using an extensive analysis of collocational profiles of the noun godina.