Corpus linguistics is used in this paper to describe selected established German-language combinations firmly connecting prepositions and nouns (German: Substantiv) with a zero article, a sign of their lexicalisation. The focus is on preposition-noun combinations that express emotions in a primarily causal adverbial function, such as aus Angst ‘from fear’, aus Furcht ‘for fear’; aus Spaß ‘for fun’, aus Lust ‘for pleasure’ aus Verzweiflung ‘out of desperation/despair’, aus Frust ‘out of frustration’. The paper points out the insufficient lexicographic description currently available in dictionaries, while emphasising that the meaning of the word combination can only be analysed in context and, from their typical occurrence, it is possible to distinguish several aspects of the combination used, something dictionaries usually do not reflect. Research into these word combinations constitute a desideration of contemporary linguistics.

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Common Word Combinations vary considerably in terms of structure and meaning. This article is focused on the area of lexical-syntagmatic combinations of Common Word Combinations with functional words. The article also deals with a kind of Common Word Combinations that up to present day has been rather neglected: binary combinations of prepositions and noun. Out of all the possible syntactical positions of the combination between prepositions and nouns, the ones being used as adverbials with modal meaning on the epistemic level were selected. The reason for this being their formal and content-related qualities and the fact that they can be counted as regular ways to express modality which have not received too much attention so far. The empirical analysis of Common Word Combinations is based on methods of Corpus Linguistics and offers verified results concerning usage, possible collocations, variations of meaning and possible equivalents of German preposition-nounconnections in contrastive comparison to Slovak.