Open AccessAfterthoughts on Semantics of Compounds
Author(s) -
Անահիտ Հովհաննիսյան
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of english literature and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2767-2964
DOI - 10.31829/2767-2964/jell2020-1(1)-103
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , trace (psycholinguistics) , semantics (computer science) , subject (documents) , subject matter , computer science , compounding , word (group theory) , diversity (politics) , epistemology , linguistics , data science , sociology , psychology , artificial intelligence , world wide web , philosophy , medicine , programming language , pedagogy , anthropology , curriculum , nursing
This paper is primarily devoted to outlining the word-formation trends in English, specifically to compounding. Firstly, we trace a variety of attempts seeking to expose various approaches connected with word derivation, secondly, the paper reports research findings from semantic classification of compounds. Compounding has been the subject of great many linguistic discussions. However, we have shown in the article that further insights into this subject-matter can exposome unexpected trends. Somehow the research touches upon the semantics of compounds ,i.e. semantic relationships reigning between its constituents. Specifically, an attempt is made to clear up the matter concerning the definition of compounds; as we can’t find a straightforward answer to this question we try to seek areas of agreement among this great diversity of opinions.