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Semantic models of nominations with the basic word revolution

The article investigates semantic models of nominations denoting dynamic processes, changes and transformations in various fields of human activity that are represented at the language level as collocations with “revolution” as the basic word. These nominations are analysed on the ground of suggested signs of revolution and presence of components in the collocations used in their direct and figurative sense. Besides, the article aims at establishing degree of correspondence between the event and its name.