ON THE QUESTION OF FUNCTIONING OF CONVERSIONAL PATTERNS IN MODERN ENGLISH

Abstract

The article considers some widely-spread conversional patterns of verbal word-formation from nouns in modern English. The ways of their secondary nomination are also being discussed, as well as acquiring additional meanings while functioning in speech. It is known that the phenomenon of conversion is so active in modern English that nearly all parts of speech somehow are involved into this process, however in different extent - most oftener they are nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Moreover, conversion is typical for English due to its analytical structure and nearly complete absence of morphological identifiers of parts of speech.

Keywords

• conversion
• word-changing patterns
• initial and secondary meaning
• конверсия
• словоизменительные модели
• первичное и вторичное значение