CONVERSION IN CREATING NEOLOGISMS AND ITS ROLE IN THE NEWSPAPER STYLE
Keywords:
language, language dictionary, word formation, grammatical categories, conversion, grammar, systemAbstract
The article deals with the analysis of word-formation methods: conversion. It is probably the most outstanding new method in the word-formation panorama. It is a curious and attractive subject because it has a wide field of action: all grammatical categories can undergo conversion to more than one word-form, it is compatible with other word-formation processes, and it has no demonstrated limitations. All these reasons make the scope of conversion nearly unlimited. Moreover, this paper attempts to analyze conversion in creating neologisms, and their role in the newspaper style.
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