Vlasenko I. Types of Nonce-Words in Fantasy Genre (based on the English, German, Ukrainian and Russian languages)

The thesis is devoted to studying of nonce-words of the English, German, Ukrainian and Russian languages in fiction, namely in fantasy genre, which is characterized by rather specific set of features. In the paper nonce-words are studied as one of the peculiarities of fantasy as literary genre. Nonce-words of the fantasy genre were studied in the comparative aspect in four languages for the first time. Futhermore, the complex methodology of their analysis was developed. It includes studying of functional, structural and semantic features of nonce words and peculiarities of their translation. On the basis of the developed methodology the ramified system was built, which includes various types of nonce-words in fantasy genre. The analysis of modern neological dictionaries of the English, German, Ukrainian and Russian languages, which include nonce-words, and separate dictionaries of nonce-words enabled to develop the dictionary entry structure used for the effective implementation of the principles of the fantasy nonce-words lexicography.