Open AccessPRODUCTIVE WORD FORMATION TENDENCIES IN PRESENT-DAY ENGLISH (based on modern coronavirus vocabulary)
Author(s) -
Oksana Torosian,
A. V. Sheliakina
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.31435/rsglobal_conf/25012021/7358
Subject(s) - word formation , vocabulary , coronavirus , word (group theory) , computer science , compounding , linguistics , covid-19 , pandemic , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , biology , medicine , philosophy , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pharmacology
The given article considers some new word formation tendencies in present-day English forced by the coronavirus pandemic. Changes in productive ways of creating new lexical units are analyzed on the basis of coronavirus vocabulary. Compounding, blending, and abbreviations are among the most frequently used types of present-day word formation that serve to create the words related to the topic given.