SOME FEATURES OF ANALYZING PREFIX PLUS VERB AND SUFFIX MODEL IN MODERN ENGLISH

Authors
S.D. Pivkin
Affiliation
Russian Customs Academy
Issue 24
Pages
70-82

This paper considers the productive word building pattern which uses a negative prefix construction. A modern tendency is noted as introducing complex adjective forms with a negative prefix into the discourse of the modern spoken English language. 

The fractional study of the model, that is, the mere providing of verbs with different values does not give clear characteristics 
of this model, and most importantly, it says nothing about the relationship between the lexical meaning of the verb and the 
preference of choosing a certain negative prefix.

When studying a word building mechanism, it is important to separate the true patterns for the model of "negative prefix + verb" from words having a resemblance to these words, but not formed, under this model.

Analysis of the study shows that the presented model using the prefix plus suffix word-building mechanism, is characterized by 
the contraction of the more complex syntactic structures, and due to this it finds widespread use in the modern English language.

The potential of the presented model is assumed to be able to develop further because of the flexibility of the modern English language, but at this stage it has certain limitations.

More research is needed which lets us say quite definitely that this trend is sustainable and relevant in-demand in the discourse of modern English.

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Mahmoud Agha Munir (2017). Some features of analyzing prefix plus verb and suffix model in modern English. Issues of Applied Linguistics, 24, 70-82. 

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