Neologisms of the English Vocabulary of the XIXth Century (on the Material of Prosaic Literary Works)
Journal Title: Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка - Year 2016, Vol 83, Issue 1
Abstract
The thesis is devoted to the study of the development of English lexical structure of the XIXth century on the material of novels. It deals with the analysis of neologisms of the XIXth century – morphological neologisms, borrowings, semantic neologisms. The research focuses on the ways and means in which English vocabulary has grown. The main types of innovations in the English language of the XIXth century (borrowings, lexical neologisms) have also been characterised. The main sources of borrowings have been described. Peculiar features of semantic neologisms and productive word-formation types in the English language have been established. Lexical peculiarities of the novels and their function in the processes of development and enrichment of the English language have been determined. The number of neologisms is different in different novels. Such authors of the middle of the XIXth century as William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë used great amount of new words in their novels. But on the other hand, in the novels by such authors of the end of the XIXth century as Henry Rider Haggard and Oscar Wilde the number of neologisms is nothing less than in the works by Emily Jane Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and William Wilkie Collins, authors of the middle of the same century. The least number of neologisms was found in the novels by authors of the beginning of the century (Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen) and in those by Robert Louis Stevenson, author of the end of the XIXth century. So we can conclude that the amount of new words in a novel depends not only on the period when it was written, but on the tastes and preferences of the author.
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L. S. Yanyshyna
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