Modern English Neologisms and Major Methods of Their Creation
The article studies and analyzes English neologisms from the standpoint of their semantics and major methods of their creation. The authors give a classification of neologisms, defining six areas of their use as new lexical units. The neologisms created with the help of affixation are divided into three groups in the article, including suffix, prefix and suffix-prefix methods. The classification of neologisms according to the method of their creation is also outlined and comprises five methods, one of the most productive of which is telescopy.