CATEGORIZATION OF THE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH COMPOUND TECHNICAL TERMS

CATEGORIZATION OF THE STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH COMPOUND TECHNICAL TERMS

Author:  V.A. Generalov

Abstract:  The present article considers some issues related to the singling-out of separate categories in the structure of English technical terms.

Keywords:  compound technical term, categorization, theory of prototypes, modificator, basis, actant.

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Pages:  478-484