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Рассмотрены колоронимы в названиях мостов. = Bridges attract people‟s attention for its function of connection of banks of rivers and reservoirs, the possibility of movement on them, and implementation of social, economic and cultural contacts. The names of the bridges become important landmarks in toponymic space of cities. Blue bridge is a landmark of St. Petersburg, it became the object of description in fiction and memoir texts, defining topos of storytelling, organizing also chronos through the description of the events occurring around its. In many works of Russian writers mention the same actors, they live in the same houses in the vicinity of the Blue bridge, the name of the bridge for them becomes a reference point for the facts of the history of the city, country and personal biography.

Constructions in Goldbergs (1995 and 2006) sense are characterized by non-compositionality. This property also pertains to causal structures with colour adjectives, e.g. (1) Fr. Je suis rouge de colère (lit. ‘I am red of anger’), (2) Germ. Er ist grün vor Neid (lit. ‘He is green of envy’, (3) It. Sono nero di rabbia (lit. ‘I am black of anger’). In Construction Grammar form and meaning constitute a pair and consequently syntax and lexicon build a continuum. The syntactic structure [‘to be’ + colour adjective + prepositional object] which characterizes the examples under discussion express a causal meaning; it is a productive structure in different languages, however it is in a certain way fixed and language-specific. The exploration of these examples will give us the possibility to discuss a series of issues related to the definition and delimitation of constructions and further of phrasemes as entities of phraseology: a) It is interesting to realize that colour terms are associated with positive or negative values when used in this particular structure. As such a colour like ‘red’ (ex. (1)) does not express any negative value – on the contrary, it is generally associated with positive feelings like love or passion, to name just a few. Is this association related to colour terms already lexicalized ? b) A further property of constructions is their possible polysemous character, i.e. the syntactic structure described here above is related to other similar structures thanks to inheritance links. Can the hierarchy level among these inheritance links be an indication for a phraseological status ? E.g. the example (4) Fr. Il est bleu de linguistique (lit. ‘He is blue of linguistics’ = ‘He is crazy about/loves linguistics’), seems to be somewhat different from the examples (1)-(3) and be much more lexicalized. The first part of the presentation will describe the constructions with colour terms in the framework of Goldberg’s model of Construction Grammar (1995, 2006) and w

The authors consider different approaches to the matter of color terms in linguistics and psychology. Perception of visual images by language consciousness in different cultures is determined by various factors: a feature of national thinking, originality of nature, culture, and as a consequence - different choice of the most typical prototype of any concept of color space. This article reviews a number of properties that are characteristic of basic and non-standard color terms. The article also considers some gender peculiarities of color terms in French fashion magazines