One of the ways of formation of complex words in the modern English language

the article focuses on one of the productive methods of enriching modern English vocabulary, namely, on compound derivative attributive-nominal adjectives formed by the pattern – definition + defined word + suffix -ed. The paper outlines the distinctive features of these words, their unifying basic meaning and structure. In particular, it discusses in detail the characteristics of the second nominal (noun) component of these compounds, identifies semantic groups of nouns that actively function as the noun component and highlights the most productive ones. The material for research is the vocabulary extracted through continuous sampling from English-Russian dictionaries and subjected to logical and statistical analysis. The conducted study allows us to conclude that this method of word formation in the English language is not only frequently used but can be recommended as well to learners for expanding and diversifying their vocabulary, as new words can be formed according to a clearly defined model from accessible and widespread (common) words in order to describe people.

the English language, stem-composition, complex words (compounds), compound derivative attributive-nominal adjectives, word semantics, word structure