CORPORA APPROACH TOWARDS THE FIXATION OF SPEECHPHENOMENA (on the material of the lexeme knowledge)

The article discusses some topical issues of modern linguistics which are dedicated to the discrepancies in understanding of emerging unconventional speech phenomena described from the points of prescriptive and descriptive grammars. The study was conducted in the context of a new methodological approach ensured with the involvement of the analysis of the text language corpora. The data of the lexeme knowledge occurrences in the English language corpora BNC and COCA were used as the material for the study. The collocation peculiarities of the studied lexeme are focused, which made it possible to reveal the mismatching of semantic fields and speech usages of the units knowledge and knowledges in Modern English.

descriptive grammar, language corpora, corpus-driven approach