compounding

Different Kinds of Compound Word Formation in Clinical Terminology

The present paper explores the properties of compounding as a means of word formation in clinical terminology. The main varieties of this kind of compound word formation are described on the material of the Russian clinical terms.

Specific Characteristics of Word-formation in Canadianisms as a Result of Language Interference (on the Materials of Dictionaries)

The article studies linguistic factors facilitating the formation of canadianisms; the latter emerge due to the bilingualism on the territory of Canada, and they are the result of the language interference. The paper presents the definition of the term «canadianism» and analyses the peculiarities of universal word-formation processes involved in creating these specific lexical units.