COMPOUND NOUNS OF NOUN+NOUN TYPE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

The paper is concerned with the noun-noun type of the compound nouns. There are several tasks that the article aims to achieve: firstly, to introduce the notion of the word formation process of noun compounds; secondly, to describe the types of the formations and the meaning of the compound words; thirdly, to examine the compound nouns of the noun + noun type used in the Economist in the third week of December 2024- January 2025.  Compound words, their formation and meaning are considered using morphology, orthography and semantics.

The material under investigation is analyzed using descriptive, continuous sampling, qualitative and comparative methods. The results of the study examined the number of occurrence of compounds from semantic and orthographic perspectives. The results of the study indicate that the most common type is endocentric compounds (71), the next on the list – exocentric – 19 and 1 appositional compound out of the total number of lexemes found in the magazine, which is 99. Among them, closed compounds – 50; open compounds – 8 and hyphened – 31.