NOMINATIONS WITH THE COMPONENT -PHOBE IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH

The article deals with the structural and semantic characteristics of the nominations with the component -phobe in Contemporary English, which refer to people suffering from pathological fears, or irrationally negatively related to someone, smth.; their correlation with motivators and the thematic classification of the nouns. The factual material is extracted from dictionaries and publications on neology. The works of many researchers, such as O. Jespersen, G. Marchand, V. Adams, L. Bauer, N. N. Raevska, Y. A. Zatsny, S. M. Yenikeeva, S. I. Neshko, G. M. Shimanovich, O. L. Garmash and others are devoted to the issues of dividing a word into morphemes, determining the relationship between motivators and derivatives. The typology of derivational meanings of derivatives is determined by the part-speech characteristics of their motivators. Nominations with the meaning ‘a person’ with the component -phobe in Contemporary English are derived mainly from nouns. As motivators, they have a certain potential, due to the type of organization of their semantic structure: the multidimensionality of the semantics of nouns allows them to join into a large number of word-building connections. The semantics of derivatives is related in different ways to the meanings of their motivators. In our materials the semantic correlation in motivational pairs is represented by only one type: the semantic content of the derivative and the motivator are equal. The specificity of the component -phobe is associated with its foreign origin and is manifested in the fact that it takes part exclusively in the formation of the nominations with the meaning ‘a person’ and does not form objects. Nominations with a meaning ‘a person’ with the component -phobe are one of the origin of replenishment of the vocabulary of Contemporary English. Further research seems to be perspective: it will allow to identify common aspects of similar nominations in different languages; it will help to clarify some controversial and unresolved issues of word formation. It is remarkable that the development of the lexical systems of different languages provides unlimited material for the research.