The classification of hyphenated lexical units with participial elements in the analytical articles in the English mass media

The aim of the research is to classify the hyphenated lexical units with participial components found in the analytical articles in British and American mass media. Scientific novelty of the research lies in dividing them into three groups and describing their lexical meaning, morphological properties and syntactic functions. The obtained results showed that hyphenated lexical units with participial components are not homogeneous and fall into three groups. Lexical units from the first group may be called compound words. They are composed of two stems, are closed or hyphenated, have unified grammatical design, perform attributive and predicative functions. Lexical units of the second group are placed between the compound words and derivatives. They are composed of a stem and a semi affix which has a generalized meaning; as a rule perform attributive function. The third group includes composites in which each component has its own lexical meaning. They don’t have unified grammatical design and perform attributive function. They are an intermediate link between the compound words and word combinations.