Typology of Abbreviated Lexic Units in Modern English
The purpose of the article is to highlight the main issues related to abbreviations: “hidden” semantics, correlation with words, interaction with the context, historical aspects. The hypothesis of the research is based on the proposition that national and international markers are considered as relevant extralinguistic factors, mastering a foreign language is considered as a means of forming professional competence of specialists (the donor role of the English language in the reduction process is indicated). The research methods are theoretical analysis of phonetic, grammatical and morphological features of abbreviations. It was found that abbreviations are not artificially created linguistic units for the linguistic economy, but they eliminate the contradiction between modern consciousness and the limited lexical resources of any language. The semantics of an abbreviation is a complex phenomenon, the formation of the semantics of an abbreviation occurs in parallel with the process of an abbreviation.