Table of content -- Note on corpora, statistical methods and databases -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic profiles -- 2.2. Multilevel profiles -- 2.2.1. Behavioral profiles -- 2.2.2. Dangers of multilevel profiling -- 2.3. Monolevel profiles -- 2.3.1. Constructional profiles -- 2.3.2. Grammatical profiles -- 2.3.3. Semantic profiles -- 2.3.4. Radial category profiles -- 2.4. Summary -- 3. Grammatical profiling and gender stereotypes -- 3.1. Language and gender -- 3.2. Grammatical profiles -- 3.3. Methodology of the study -- 3.4. The top 100 masculine verbs -- 3.4.1. Role -- 3.4.2. Negatively evaluated behavior -- 3.4.3. Talk and argumentation -- 3.4.4. Physical -- 3.4.5. Gesture -- 3.4.6. Liturgical verbs and verbs of high style -- 3.5. The top 100 feminine verbs -- 3.5.1. Role: maternity, household and witchcraft -- 3.5.2. Emotions -- 3.5.3. Relationships -- 3.5.4. Appearance -- 3.5.5. Movement -- 3.5.6. Talk -- 3.6. Summary -- 4. Semantic profiling, predictability and prototypicality -- 4. 1. Radial category of Russian prefix pri- -- 4. 2. Predictability of the submeaning -- 4.2.1. Methodology of the study -- 4.2.2. Analysis: frequent verbs -- 4.2.3. Analysis: infrequent verbs -- 4.3. The quest for the prototype of the prefix pri- -- 4.3.1. Prototypical features -- 4.3.2. Center of gravity, characteristic features and concreteness -- 4.3.3. Entrenchment, token and type frequency -- 4.3.4. Salience and default meaning -- 4.3.4.1. Default rule for the pri-robot -- 4.3.4.2. Pro-verbs -- 4.4. Summary -- 5. Constructional profiling and aspectual pairs -- 5.1. Criteria for establishing an aspectual pair -- 5.1.1. Formulation of the criteria -- 5.1.2. Use of the criteria -- 5.1.2.1. Relevancy -- 5.1.2.2. Results of the criteria are not always compatible.

5.1.2.3. Different linguists classify verbs differently -- 5.1.3. Aspectual pairs and cognition -- 5.1.4. Aspectual pairs and constructions -- 5.2. Methodology of the study -- 5.3. Intersection rates for seventeen pairs of verbs with the prefix pro- -- 5.3.1. Pairs with the highest intersection rates -- 5.3.2. Pairs of speech and mental verbs -- 5.3.3. Pairs of sound verbs -- 5.3.4. Pairs with the lowest intersection rates -- 5.3.5. Aspectual pairs and variation -- 5.4. Summary -- 6. Collostructional profiling -- 6.1. Grammatical tendencies and collostructional profiles -- 6.2. Collostructional profiling of phone PPs in Russian and English -- 6.2.1. Phone PPs in Russian and English -- 6.2.2. On the phone and into the phone -- 6.2.3. Po telefonu 'on the phone' -- 6.2.4. V telefon 'into the phone' and v trubku 'into the receiver' -- 6.3. Why do we scream into the phone? -- 6.4. Interaction of the possessive construction and the construction of disappearance -- 6.5. Summary -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Subject index -- Index of Russian verbs.