Grammatical feature of animacy in some Russian compounds in media

The paper discusses the grammatical feature of animacy in business discourse compounds whose first and second components differ in animacy: gosudarstvo-otvetchik (respondent State), strana — eksportyor narkotikov (drug-exporting country), etc. on the basis of the contexts represented in the main body and newspaper subcorpus of The Russian National Corpus and the results of the Yandex search engine. The purpose of the research is to identify any differences in the preferences for choosing the meaning of the animacy category in business media discourse for different types of composites: compound words and syntactic constructions including an apposition. The methods used in the study include modeling, classification, contextual analysis, qualitative and quantitative comparison, and surveying language speakers. To test hypotheses, Pearson's Chi-squared test is applied, and the corresponding coefficients are calculated using the CORREL function in Microsoft Excel. The cases of retention of the dictionary meaning of morphological animacy in syntactic structures are analyzed. Of particular interest are the situations of expansion of the animacy feature from one component of the compound to the whole compound. Grammatical and cognitive prerequisites for the assimilation of compound members in grammatical animacy are proposed. The possibility of agreement of adjectives, determinative pronouns, ordinal numerals and participles with such compounds are considered.