GEMINATION (TRIPLE REPEAT) ACCORDING TO THE CORPUS DATA

From the perspective of Construction Grammar, gemination is a specifi c lexical and grammatical structure defi ned at the lexical level by a single, fixed lexical unit that fills the fi rst and subsequent slots, and organized at the syntactic level as a series composed of union/non-union elements. In the statistical and combinatorial aspects, geminations are
considered trigrams, which can be analyzed using corpus methods to assess the degree of stability of these structures and determine the degree of attraction of lexical units to the slots of this design. In rhetoric, gemination is a type of repetition that diff ers from reduplication in terms of the number of elements and functions. This figure can be used to describe a large number of similar objects, the duration or monotonous nature of processes,or to reflect the immersion of a lyrical character in a particular state or the focus on a particular subject. The current level of corpus linguistics development allows us to consider the poetics of gemination as a figure against the background of three-fold repetitions in language as a whole. This study presents the analysis of the use of gemination inmulti-genre Russian text corpora, focusing on lexical and grammatical classes of words that are prone to constructions involving geminations. Observations made are supported by quantitative data on the distribution of gemination occurrences in research texts.