STRUCTURAL-SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION OF COMPOUND NOUNS OF AVIATION ENGLISH
The article considers compound nouns of aviation English. The author examines the structure of compound nouns, provides the examples of different models of compound nouns, identifies the most productive model and within this model differentiates the most frequent components. Semantic relations between the components of compound nouns are determined. Lexico-semantic groups of nouns in the structure of a compound word are identified. The originality of the study lies in the fact that in spite of a great number of linguistic papers devoted to stem-composition and compound words, compound nouns of aviation English for the first time become an object of the research.