Keyword: «verbal word»
In the article the author refers to the history of studying the issue of strong and weak government in Russian linguistics. Based on the word semantics, mandatory and optional in structure and meaning verb expanders of the lexico-semantic group of creation are analyzed. Based on a common analysis of prepositional and prepositional-nominal verb phrases it is concluded that the verb semantics and semantics of the governed noun is important for the characteristics of strong and weak government.