Composites in modern English as a component of the semantic condensation of vocabulary

Abstract

The present essay is focused on rather specific structural groups and models of lexical units not only in their present-day condition and historical development but also in their real functioning in language. Intent attention to the sphere of their real functioning in speech, to the teaching about a compound word (composite) that is developing against the background of wordbuilding autonomization is conditioned by enormous interest existing in modern linguistics to compositology, by the position of wordbuilding that is becoming an independent field of linguistic  investigations, by the growing activity of English word composition in enrichment of the language word stock and by the lack of fundamental works in English word composition both in home
and foreign linguistics. The origin of composites comes forward not as a specific process, caused by broad circulation of word composition in the English language but as one of manifestations of the general process of semantic condensation of the vocabulary that is proceeding in many languages. The growth of information theory of language units caused by the increase of the information potential of the society, by science and technical progress and intellectualization of modern life leads to cutting down the language surplus, to rationalization of language system.
Careful studies of productive types of composite formation helps reveal new tendencies and regularities to use the existing language means in the process of creation of new formations that present an active source towards enrichment of the English present-day word stock.