Variability of attributive structures describing a noun with a conceptual meaning of the flora object in Russian and English (based on Google search queries)

The present paper aims to investigate the conditionality of the verbalization of classes of the concept NATURE through attributive structures in Russian and English. The paper considers the notions of attributive construction, 50 concept, and formulates the definition and content of the noun with the conceptual meaning of the flora object in the Russian and English pictures of the world. The paper presents the results of a linguistic experiment based on the Google search engine and aimed to identify the structural features of attribute constructions characterizing objects of the plant world considering the components variability. In Russian, greater variability of the structures was found compared with English. However, both languages showed similar preferences for the relevant order of attributes. In the chains of attributes, the first position was occupied by adjectives with either positive or negative emotional connotations. In case of attributes inversion, the relevance of highlighting the factual features of the object was observed. The shift of the cognitive focus was found to demonstrate opposite priorities of conceptualizing Russian and English language reality.