Analysis of the Verbal Associations of the Adverbs близко and ближе in Russian and близу and ближе in Serbian

In this paper we analyse reactions to the stimuli близко and ближе in the Russian language and близу и ближе in the Serbian language. The corpus for this research is drawn from associative dictionaries of the Russian and Serbian languages: Русский ассоциативный словарь and Асоци？ативни речник српског ？езика. The main object of this paper is the analysis of reactions to the words близко, ближе, близу, ближе. We discuss the semantic and syntactic forms of these reactions. We also analyse these reactions from a morphological, syntactic and cultural point of view. Furthermore, in this paper we analyse contrastively the differences and similarities. On the other hand, the grammatical aspect is also considered in both languages. In conclusion, we describe the reactions from a cultural aspec