THE ASSOCIATIVE WAY WORD-BUILDING OF THE INFORMAL NAMES

The article is devoted of the question of studying the derivation of informal names (nicknames, call signs) by phonetic and semantic associations. The author proves of this problem being adequate, actual and perspective. The associativity as a means of wordformation in onomastics of different years outlined and defineed in works by O. Verbovetska, N. Brener, Y. Karaulov, M. Khudash, O. Nakhimova, N. Fedotova and other. N. Khrustyk studied the associativity as the associative way word-building in derivatology. The purpose of our research is to study the derivation of nicknames and call signs by associativity as a means of word-formation. The object of the research is the ways wordbuilding. The subject of our research is the associativity as a means for the formation of the nicknames and call signs of the Ukrainian language. To teach the aim we should solve such problems: to study a mechanism for the production of the nicknames, call signs by a means of associativity; to define way of word-building of this derivatives. Metodology. The empirical method, the observation of language material, the descriptive method, the method of derivational analysis are used. Findling. The research results show, that the associative way word-building is the method for the formation onyms (nicknames, call signs) by phonetic and semantic associations. The article specifies the specifics of the mechanism for the derivation of the nicknames, call signs by a means of associativity. Practical value. The metodology, derivational analysis, elaborated classifications of the ways word-building of informal names (nicknames, call signs) in this article can be used in the process of writting textbooks in word-formation of the Ukrainian language at a high school. Results. The associative way word-building is proved an existence in derivatology.