The paradigm of prepositional units with the basic component <i>в направлении</i>
The article provides detailed description of the morphosyntagmatical paradigm with the basic preposition в направлении, which consists of fifteen prepositional combinations. The contexts with the given units were searched for on the Internet and in the National corpus of the Russian language. The classification of the prepositional combinations according to their semantics is offered in the article. It is based on the classification of syntaxemes with spatial meaning offered by G.A. Zolotova and M.V. Vsevolodova. The given prepositional combinations fall into the following groups such as “directive-finish”, “directive-start” and “start-finish”. Prepositional combinations with the meaning ‘trajectory’ used in terminological syntaxemes have been revealed. The expected units with transitive semantics haven’t been found.