PRINCIPLE OF FORMING SUBORDINATE CONCEPTS (ON THE BASIS OF THE CONCEPT «WEAPON»)

Authors

  • Sergei Vladimirovich Balakin Ural State University of Railway Transport

Keywords:

derivation, concept, subordinate level, derivational knot, conceptual feature

Abstract

The present article is concerned with the principle of forming subordinate concepts of
the macroconcept “weapon”. The main conceptual features helping in forming new concepts
are form, name, way of nomination of an animal. Conceptual features mentioned
above form derivational knots that have different derivational potential, the form and the
way being the knots with the greatest derivational potential.

Author Biography

Sergei Vladimirovich Balakin, Ural State University of Railway Transport

Candidate of Philological Sciences, head of foreign languages and cross-cultural communications
of Ural State University of Railway Transport, Yekaterinburg. E-mail: SBalakin@usurt.ru

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2014)

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