International Journal of Language and Linguistics 2014; 2(3): 165-173 Published online April 30, 2014 (http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/ijll) doi: 10.11648/j.ijll.20140203.15 Combinatory Linguistics: An area of theoretical and applied language study Marina Vlavatskaya Dep. of Foreign Languages (Dep. of Humanities), Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU), Novosibirsk, Russia Email address:
[email protected] To cite this article: Marina Vlavatskaya. Combinatory Linguistics: An Area of Theoretical and Applied Language Study. International Journal of Language and Linguistics. Vol. 2, No. 3, 2014, pp. 165-173. doi: 10.11648/j.ijll.20140203.15 Abstract: This paper aims to describe Combinatory Linguistics as an area dealing with syntagmatic relations of language units and their combinatory profile. In this respect collocability is a subject of separate study and it should be described in an independent branch of language area. Combinatory Linguistics includes theoretical (Combinatory Lexicology, Combinatory Semasiology) and an applied section (Combinatorial Lexicography). The perspectives, objectives, terminological framework and the fundamental theory prove the importance of combinatory science about language in the structure of theoretical and applied linguistics. Within the discipline the following aspects of studying combinability of language units can be singled out: methodological, metalinguistic, functional, semantic, cognitive, psycholinguistic, normative, etc. Keywords: Combinatorics, Syntagmatics, Collocability, Combinability,