Subject of investigation is the name of the colour. Task of investigation: to disclose refinements of using the colour names, the meaning added by colour to collocation of phraseological units and function of the colour in the phraseological units and collocations by comparing Russian and Lithuanian collocations and phraseological units having colour name in their composition. In order to perform the task, 80 prhaseological units in Russian, 135 in Lithuanian and 200 collocations in the both languages were collected. In the practical part we analysed usage of the colour names found in the phraseological units and collocations, established the meaning and connotation granted by colour meaning in a word combination. Phraseological units were allocated into the following four groups: 1. Phraseological units, similar in their meanings and component compositions; 2. Phraseological units, similar in their meanings but differing in component compositions; 3. Phraseological units, different in their meanings but similar with component compositions; 4. Phraseological units, different in their meanings and component compositions. Collocations were allocated as follows: 1. Collocations with the meaning, describing human feelings; 2. Collocations, describing life realities; 3. Collocations, describing appearance of a person; 4. Collocations, describing nature; 5. Collocations, describing historical past or today’s topicalities; 6. The rest collocations (specific to a single language... [to full text]

SUMMARY The names of colours in the Lithuanian dialects have not been investigated at all; therefore, the topic of the present work for Master of Arts “The Names of Colours in Dialects” is relevant and important. The aim of the work is to investigate and describe the names of colours in dialects. The main objectives of the work: 1) to identify the frequency of the use of the names of colours; 2) to identify the kind of things the characteristic colour of which is marked by the names of colours; 3) to identify the semantic contents of the names of colours. The methods of the work: descriptive, statistical, the method of semantic analysis. The material has been selected from 6 dialectal dictionaries: “Dictionary of Daukšiai Region” by V. Labutis; “Dictionary of Druskininkai Dialect” by G. Naktinienė, A. Paulauskienė, V. Vitkauskas; “Dictionary of Lazūnai Dialect” by J. Petrauskas, A. Vidugiris, “Dictionary of North East Dūnininkai Subdialects” by V. Vitkauskas; Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 of “Dictionary of Zanavykai Subdialect” by R. Bacevičiūtė, G. Čepaitienė, V. Sakalauskienė, J. Švambarytė, K. Vosylytė; “Dictionary of Zietela Subdialect” by A. Vidugiris. The object of the work: 1) combinations in which certain two denotats are compared according to the common feature of a colour; 2) usually metaphoric combinations epithet + noun marking a characteristic feature (the combinations in which the name of a colour has a secondary meaning have been rejected); 3) metaphoric derivatives... [to full text]