COMPUTERONYMS: THE STRUCTURAL ASPECT
The article is dedicated to the analysis of computeronyms that are proper names of different computer programs. The purpose of this research work is to define the structural type of computeronyms. English computeronyms are the objeet of this research work. Their structural peculiarities are the subject. One hundred English computeronyms that denote computer games have been chosen from Metacritic rating. This rating includes reviews on movies, games, music albums information on which was published in mass media. The average rating from 100 scores reflects their popularity. The rating is renewed every 90 days. The materials from April 2018 have been analysed. Conclusion: in the result of this research we found out that the leading role is given to two- and and multicomponent word combinations, to such names that explain the meaning of a game and fully characterize it. Our future research will be dedicated to the investigation of English computeronyms’ semantics, to the structural-semantical potential of every class of English ideonyms in order to establish their general and distinctive features.