Terminas kontekste (žodžių junginio lygmuo)
Terminas in context (the level of word phrases)

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses usage of the main term of terminology terminas ‘term’ in academic Lithuanian. The material for the research has been extracted from the Corpus of Academic Lithuanian (available at http://coralit.lt/). The article deals with the usage of the term terminas at the level of word phrases, syntagmatic relations of terminas are investigated. Semantic types of phrases with terminas and the main usage models of terminas are identified. The aim is to clarify what characteristics and features of the concept ‘term’ are explicit in the context. In the Corpus of Academic Lithuanian terminas is used most frequently in its first lexicographical meaning – as a term of terminology (and linguistics). When the term terminas is used in reference to a particular term, it shows the estimation that particular unit belongs to the category of terms. Considering the usage of terminas in academic texts of different sciences, term can be treated both as a unit of metalanguage and a general term of science.

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