Russian interrogative pronouns as a lexicographic type

Our study tackles Russian interrogative-relative pronouns ( wh -words) as a lexicographic type which requires unified treatment. objective is to give systematic description and explanation of the numerous collocational constructional properties -words using corpus methods. The dataset statistics were extracted from National Corpus, at least 100 examples for each analysed. Methodologically based on principles Moscow School Semantics (namely, integral language lexicography) are large extent rooted in “Meaning?Text” theory. They include analysis linguistic items all levels language; focus their semantic combinatorial properties; acknowledged validity dictionary an instrument research. paper considers semantic, syntactic co-occurrence shared by many interrogative analyzes reasons almost entire lack zachem ‘what for’ pochemu ‘why’. As demonstrated study, most typical (for example, with particles imenno ‘exactly’ khot’ ‘at least’, constructions mnogo ‘many’, malo ‘few’, etc.) motivated semantics multiplicity choice, incompatible In addition, findings show, different have frequencies occurrence described constructions, explained not general or animacy hierarchy, but compatibility meanings choice. obtained results suggest that which, turn, reflects meta-linguistic characteristics situations they refer.