Краткий курс лекций по лексикологии английского языка для студентов неязыковых вузов. Москалёва Е.В. - 23 стр.

                  Phonological neologisms are formed by combining unique
            sounds, they are called artificial, e.g. rah-rah /a short skirt which
            is worn by girls during parades/, yeck/yuck which are interjections
            to express repulsion produced the adjective yucky/yecky. These
            are strong neologisms.
                  Strong neologisms also include phonetic borrowings, such
            as perestroika /Russian/, solidarnost /Polish, Berufsverbot
            /German/, dolce vita /Italian/ etc.
                  Morphological and syntactical neologisms are usually built
            on patterns existing in the language, therefore they do not belong
            to the group of strong neologisms.
                  Among morphological neologisms there are a lot of
            compound words of different types, such as free-fall – резкое
            падение курса акций appeared in 1987 with the stock market
            crash in October 1987 / on the analogy with free-fall of
            parachutists, which is the period between jumping and opening
            the chute/. Here also belong: call-and-recall – вызов на
            диспансеризацию, bioastronomy – search for life on other
            planets, rat-out –betrayal in danger, zero-zero /ban of longer and
            shorter range weapon/, x-rated /about films terribly vulgar and
            cruel/, Amerenglish /American English/, tycoonography /a
            biography of business tycoon/.
                  There are also abbreviations of different types such as resto,
            teen /teenager/, dinky /dual income no kids yet/, ARC /AIDS-
            related condition, infection with AIDS/, HIV /human immuno-
            deficiency virus/.
                  Quite a number of neologisms appear on the analogy with
            lexical units existing in the language, e.g. snowmobile
            /automobile/, danceaholic /alcoholic/, airtel /hotel/, cheeseburger
            /hamburger/, autocade /cavalcade/.
                  There are many neologisms formed by means of affixation,
            such as: decompress, to disimprove, overhoused, educationalist,
            slimster, folknik etc. Phraseological neologisms can be subdivided
            into phraseological units with transferred meanings e.g. to buy
            into /to become involved/, fudge and dudge /avoidance of definite



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