Tupakhina O. The Structural-Semantic and Linguocognitive Peculiarities of Neologisms in the German Language of the Late XXth – Early XXIst c.

The dissertation is devoted to the structural-semantic and linguocognitive analysis of neologisms in the German language of the late XXth - early XXIst centuries. The definition of a neologism has been proposed, the basic models and means of coining new words have been determined in terms of the principal extra- and intra-linguistic factors, modifications of the semantic structure of neologisms have been analyzed, the types of derivation of new words have been distinguished, and the tendencies of the vocabulary development have been revealed. The criteria for identification of neologisms, which served as a basis for selecting the corpus of the language units to be studied, and the creativity of various ways and models of coining new words have been discussed. The cognitive-semantic neology area has been represented by 5 metaphoric and 5 metonymic models, as well as by loan-words that either underwent transformations of their semantic structure, or preserved their initial meaning and therefore contribute to the elimination of the conceptual lacunae in the recipient language. The metaphoric models described are based on the propositive-dictum, modus and associative-terminal motivations. The metonymic models are represented by three syntactic-semantic structures: that of cause-and-effect, the instrumentally-directing and the local-possessive ones. An analysis of verbalized innovative structural varieties of human knowledge and experience manifested in the language via most existing means of derivation, i.e. composition, combined forms, prefixation, suffixation, abbreviation, acronymy, telescopy and lexical borrowing has been made.