Present-Day Word-Formation Tendencies

Abstract.

PRESENT-DAY WORD-FORMATION TENDENCIES

Peftieva Olena

Department of Theory and Practice of Translation, Mariupol state university, Ukraine.

Abstract

Background: The study focuses on the domain of word formation studies and posits that present-day word-formation tendencies differ slightly from one research to another but for all that there are no coinages of new roots in spite of the fact that there is a certain number of lacunae in a language. The topicality lies in the absence of papers devoted to the search of new roots and modern word-formation tendencies among the updates of OED.

Purpose: The research endeavours to analyse present-day tendencies in word-building and to detect the coinage of new roots among the new words and expressions, attested by the Oxford English Dictionary in March and June updates of 2019 which were not available in the previous editions.

Results: The data obtained testifies that analyzed new lexical meanings emerge with the help of semantic derivation, compounding, suffixation, borrowing, prefixation, shortening, spelling modification and conversion. Proceeding from this, it is assumed that the vocabulary of the English language continues to grow at the expense of the internal resources of the existing word stock and borrowings from other languages, but the coinage of new roots is not among the word formation types.

Discussion: The literature devoted to the current word-formation processes and neology, in particular, is diverse and numerous. In this work the neologism proper is understood as a lexical unit that combines the novelty of the written or phonetic plane of expression with the novelty of the plane of content, and which nominates certain linguistic lacuna. Borrowings are considered to be neologisms in the studied updates of OED. Few researchers mention new root coinages among which are occasionalisms, nonce-words, onomatopoeic words, but the roots which are coined ‘out of thin air’ are not among them.

Keywords: new roots, new coinage, neologisms, word formation types, semantic derivation.

Vitae

Olena Peftieva is PhD in Philology, Associate Professor. Her areas of research interests include historical linguistics, discourse studies, cognitive linguistics.

Correspondence: peftieva@gmail.com

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