Лексичні та синтактико-стилістичні зміни в сучасній англійській мові: вплив комп’ютерних технологій

The most productive patterns of forming new nouns are:

Verb + -er ,

e.g.: brain-washer, double-talker;

Verb + -ing,

e.g.: cracking, phreaking.

The most frequent ways of verb coinage are:

un- + verb,

e.g.: unhook, undo, unbreak;

(adjective/noun + noun) + -ed, e.g.: long-legged, flat-bottomed

The most widely used ways of forming new adjectives are:

verb + -able,

e.g.: attachable, livable-in;

un- + Participle I or II,

e.g.: unguarded, unheard-of;

un- + adverb,

e.g.: unsouled, uncool.

Conversion, or zero- inflection, is a special non-affixal type of transforming a word into another part of speech.»

(Marchand : 293)

The most frequently used patterns of conversion are:

Noun - verb

E.g.: a butcher – to butcher, a boss – to boss

Verb - noun

E.g.: to know how – the know-how, to catch – the catch

Adjective – noun

E.g.: intellectual – the intellectual, progressive – the progressive