MORPHOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF ENGLISH DENTAL TERMINOLOGY

Abstract

The article deals with the study of dental terms in the English language. The final aim of the work is to study and analyze morphological features of the given group of medical terms. The research has been done on the basis of several dictionaries, namely Dental Dictionary, New Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus of the English Language, The Oxford English Reference Dictionary. The volume of investigated material is 180 terms, obtained by consecutive selection. Terminology constitutes the greatest part of every language vocabulary. It is also its most intensely developing part, the class giving the largest number of new formations. The following structural subgroups of the analyzed terms have been singled out: simple terms, compound terms, terminological word combinations. Affixation if the most widely used word building pattern.

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N. M. Tkhor

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  • EP ID EP609685
  • DOI 10.18524/2307-4604.2018.1(40).137078
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N. M. Tkhor (2018). MORPHOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF ENGLISH DENTAL TERMINOLOGY. Записки з романо-германської філології, 1(), 193-199. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-609685