Occasional Collocations in Poetry of P. B. Shelley and Their Typology

Abstract

The article is devoted to the functional-semantic analysis of occasional collocations in the poetry of P. B. Shelley. Occasional collocation refers to a special type of lexical units - individual author’s combinations of words, in which, as a rule, the lexical-semantic combinability is intentionally violated to attract the attention of readers to an unusual use of words. The relevance of this study is determined by the fact that occasional collocations are, firstly, one of the most expressive means of aesthetic enrichment of the artwork, and secondly, valuable linguistic material to study. The purpose of this article is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of occasional collocations for defining the meaning of the units, identifying mechanisms of their formation and establishment of the functions of collocations in the context of the works of P. B. Shelley and their belonging to a particular taxonomic type. In the analysis the author identifies several types of occasional units, creating the originality of poet’s lyrics: the author’s metaphors, deliberate pleonasms, inter-perception transfer, epithets, combinations of words, containing the opposite semes and at the same time having common semes to create occasional meaning. It is emphasized that the creation of occasional collocations is a characteristic feature of the author’s style of Shelley.