Ryzhenko S. Motivational and Structural Types of the Profession Names in the English and Ukrainian Languages

This thesis presents the contrastive analysis of profession names in modern English and Ukrainian aimed at revealing their common and distinctive features. The result of the research is singling out motivational bases, establishing features of lexical and structural motivation, determining word-forming types of profession names in two languages. The analysis of profession names in English and in Ukrainian from the point of view of their motivation has permitted to single out 16 lexical motivational bases in English and in 8 in Ukrainian. The peculiarities of structural motivation of such units lie in a vast range of formative elements with additional meaning which help to form these names. The consideration of the principal word-forming means for profession names of the English and Ukrainian languages results in determining the following structural types: 1) affixational; 2) complex; 3) word combinations; 4) juxtapositives; 5) root names; 6) conversives.