Univerbation in the English system of compressive word-formation types and functioning of univerbs in the press

Konev Roman Evgenievich

The topicality of the study is due to the fact that in modern languages the tendency towards regularity is actively developing, which is expressed in the human desire to reduce the complex structure of a word to a simpler one for successful communication. Thus, word-formation compression is one of the most effective techniques of modern word formation, which allows a person to convey more information in a much shorter period of time. The aim of this work is to study and analyze types of univerbation and models of univerbs in the context of lexical units and their combinations in English. Realization of the foregoing aim is achieved by the solution of the following attendant tasks: • determination of motivational features of the univerbation and their lexico-thematic groups; • definition of the terms univerbation, univerb and identification of their functioning in the context of structural compression of language units in English • consideration the need, validity and perspectivity of univerbation in the English communicative culture.

Keywords:Univerbation, univerbs, structural compression, the principle of economy of speech means, word-formation.