EXPRESSION OF THE SEMANTIC SUBJECT BY COMPOUND NOUNS OF COLLOQUIAL FRENCH

Chervony Alexander Mikhailovich

The article is devoted to the expression of the semantic subject by means of compound separate nouns of colloquial French. In the paper compound French nouns are represented by various syntactic models formed by the combination of almost all parts of speech, and express various features, properties, qualities (mainly in negative aspect), that reveal peculiarities of character, behaviour, profession and kinship of the subject. The variety of word-formation models is explained by the developed word-formation system of the French language. In the nomenclature of French compound substantives there are lexemes of reduced vocabulary: common parlance, the vernacular, argot.

Keywords:semantic subject, word formation, syntactic model, compound word, colloquial French language