Word formation and other ways of nomination in Modern English and Ukrainian.

Language is a means of forming and storing ideas as re-flections of reality and exchanging them in the process of human intercourse.

The communicative function is the main function of the language.

The communicative function is closely connected with the other , nominative function.

Nominative function is the function of giving names to things, objects, it is called nomination.

Ways of nomination:

W o r d - F o r m a t i o n is the system of derivative types of words

and the process of creating new words from the material available in the

language after certain structural and semantic formulas and patterns.

For instance, the noun driver is formed after the pattern v+-er, i.e. a verbal

stem +-the noun-forming suffix -er. The meaning of the derived noun

driver is related to the meaning of the stem drive- ‘to direct the course of

a vehicle’ and the suffix -er meaning ‘an active agent’:

Likewise compounds resulting from two or more stems joined together to form a new

word are also built on quite definite structural and semantic patterns and

formulas, for instance adjectives of the snow-white type are built according

to the formula п+а,

the following two types of word-formation may be distinguished, word- derivation

and word-composition (or compounding)

Words created by word-derivation have in terms of word-formation analysis only one derivational base and one derivational affix, e.g. cleanness (from clean

The basic ways of forming words is w o r d - d e r i v a t i о n , for instance, are a ff i x a t i o n and c o n v e r s i o n