New English compound words

Efremova Ekaterina M.

The present article is devoted to the complex investigation of the structural and semantic diversity of English compounds registered in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary during 2020–2021 years. The author determines the part of speech of compound words, shows that they are not homogeneous in their structure, as well as analyses their meaning and thematic group. In the end the author of the article comes to the conclusion that composition is the most productive type of word building in present-day English. On the one hand, such tendency can be explained by the easiness of creating new words from lexical units already existing in the language. On the other hand, compound words specify already existing notions and also determine new notions and objects of the reality.

Keywords:word building, composition, compound word, multi-word compound, linguistic analysis, word building model