The Method of Building Terminological Phrase Corpora as the Basis for Identifying Consubstantial Linguistic Terms

The purpose of the article is to study the methodology for distinguishing the cases of terminological and non-terminological use of words regarded as consubstantial linguistic terms. Four Russian terms, “актив” (asset / active voice), “глухой” (deaf), “лицо” (person) and “классический” (classic), were selected for the study. Polysemy and homonymy of this kind of terms have led to great difficulties in recognizing their terminological or non-terminological use. The proposed method for solving this problem is to identify these term characteristics in linguistic contexts by analyzing the use of terminological phrases in a specialized corpus. Google Ngram Viewer and Russian National Corpus (НКРЯ) were utilized to analyze the contexts. The features of the selected terms linguistic meanings present in narrow and broad contexts are taken into consideration. The results show that for terms used separately and not being part of terminological phrases, it is possible to sum up their grammatical features to identify the terms used terminologically or non-terminologically; for terms that are part of terminological phrases, it is vital to make a list of their terminological phrases.