Pritomskaya A.R., Fedulenkova T.N. Grammatical functions of term hot money in modern American English

The paper deals with the functional analysis of the two-component term hot money, which belongs to the domain of economics and finance in the field of business communication. The work objective is to identify the grammatical functions of the term chosen for analysis in a sentence and determine their percentage ratio in modern professional discourse. The empirical corpus is constituted by two hundred instances of the phraseological unit usage in American English. The examples were selected from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The research focuses on the grammatical functions that the term-phraseologism under consideration can perform in a sentence. A number of methods have been applied in the research, namely: the method of phraseological identification by A.V. Kunin, the methods of definitions by I.S. Kulikova, and the method of quantitative analysis by Z.I. Komarova. As a result of the study, six types of grammatical functions of the term-phraseologism under consideration have been identified, namely: the subject, the prepositional object, the prepositional attribute, the part of a compound nominal predicate, the direct object, and that of the appositive, with their percentage ratio being determined. Keywords: American variant of modern English, business terminology, term-phraseologism, PU-term, phraseological unit component, term function in sentence.