COLLOCATIONS AS A MECHANISM OF STATEMENTS MODELING (BY THE MATERIAL OF THE RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES)
The article deals with the question of the phased modeling of statements by the material of the Russian and English languages ​​through collocations. The author examines the two-stage process of sentences construction from both ready lexical units (collocations) and random combinations of language units. The paper substantiates the position that at the mental stage the choice of language means from the existing speaker's arsenal by the principle of association takes place, then at the structural stage collocations combine into the syntagmatic chain in accordance with the grammatical laws of language.