Comparative conceptual analysis of the new event lexicon of modern English and German languages
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-9-188-201
Abstract
The article concentrates on the conceptual analysis of new lexical items representing events in modern English and German vocabulary. The material of the research is event neologisms of English and German, expressed by nouns and gerunds. Those new lexical units were mostly retrieved from online sources. The main sources of the collected material are on websites of the dictionary publishing houses, blogs containing information about new lexical units, as well as special programmes aimed at collecting neologisms online, e. g. NeoCrawler, Wortwarte, and OWID. The article provides a model of new event categorisation in English and German languages at three levels: superordinate, basic, and subordinate ones. Each of the levels is structured by a particular frame within the categorisation model. The article provides a comparative analysis of frames underlying formation of new event vocabulary in English and German languages. As a result, the analysis reveals the main differences between frame structures.
About the Author
E. I. Barkhatova
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elvira I. Barkhatova
Kaliningrad, bld. 56, Chernyshevskii Street, 236000
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Barkhatova E.I. Comparative conceptual analysis of the new event lexicon of modern English and German languages. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2020;(9(2)):188-201. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-9-188-201
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