Tolcheyeva T. Functional and Semantic Peculiarities of Compounds with Elements -looking, -like in Modern English and American Fiction.

. The research project offers the new way for the analysis of the compounds with elements -looking, -like on the ground of the approximate designation theory and the conceptual analysis methodology. The thesis focuses on revealing functional and semantic characteristics of the above compound words in present-day English and American fiction. The conceptual analysis of semantics of English compounds with elements -looking, -like makes it possible to distinguish the ways of their formation, state the meaning of the compounds under study, analyse their inner valency. On the basis of the field approach to language analysis the groups of the compounds with elements -looking, -like are intersected into microfields. The investigation provides opportunities for presentation the microfields of identity, similarity and likeness. Metaphor is regarded in the paper as the ground for forming the microfield of likeness.