TERMINOLOGICAL WORD COMBINATIONS WITH THE LEXICAL COMPONENT “FINGERPRINT”: SPECIFICS OF NOMINTATION

Abstract

The article elicits the major nomination mechanisms and syntactic patterns within complex nominative units with the lexical component “fingerprint”. The aim of the article is to outline the specifics of the terminological word combinations with the lexical component “fingerprint” as part of the terminological system referring to Criminalistics. The analysis revealed one dominant nomination mechanism for the majority of complex nominative units with the lexical component of “fingerprint”, which is the specification of the significative meaning of a nominative unit due to the introduction of additional lexemes. This mechanism is often coupled with suffixation and conversion. The regular syntactic patterns manifesting themselves in complex nominative units with the lexical component “fingerprint” include the following structures: Adjective + Noun, Noun + Noun, Noun + of + Noun, Noun in the Genitive case + Noun, Verb + Noun, Verb + preposition / postposition + Noun.

Keywords

• nominative unit
• specification of significative meaning
• suffixation
• conversion
• syntactic pattern
• semantic component
• fingerprint
• номинативная единица
• уточнение сигнификативного значения
• аффиксация
• конверсия
• синтаксическая модель
• семантический компонент
• отпечаток пальца