Structural and semantic characteristics of compound words in English financial discourse

The aim of the study is to identify the structural and semantic features of compound words in English financial discourse. The article reveals the concept of "compound word", classifies compound words according to their part of speech, and identifies the most common types of compound words in the field of finance. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that the study is the first to conduct a comprehensive analysis of compound words belonging to different parts of speech in English financial discourse, which allowed us to identify and describe productive word-formation models of compound words based on extensive linguistic material, as well as to determine their structural and semantic originality. As a result of the study, it was found that compound nouns, characterized by brevity and semantic capacity and formed according to a nonpreposition model, prevail in English financial discourse; nouns formed from verbs with postpositions using conversion; phrasal compound words; and complex-derivative nouns denoting basic concepts in the field of finance. Compound adjectives, which are less common in the analyzed area, are mainly represented by syntactic models with a subordinate connection, and compound verbs are not diverse and are rarely used due to their cumbersome structure.