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This article deals with the semantic diversification of a word family of compound nouns with the central motivating element -scape (a bound stem/final combining form/affixoid originating in the noun landscape). The research on a sample of 180 -scape compounds revealed a rapid growth of the family size in contemporary English and identified 15 senses of the combining form -scape. The openness and very considerable size of the family drives the widening of its meaning spectrum and leads to a semantic shift towards a more abstract and metaphorical level.
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The article addresses the topic of English compound verbs and their origin and occurrence in contemporary English. Traditionally, they are considered to be the least numerous group among English compounds, and in addition, some authors (Marchand, Adams) consider them to be secondary (non-canonical, pseudo-) compounds, which are not formed by compounding, but by conversion and back-formation. On the one hand, the collected sample of 200 compound verbs, 90% of which form 32 sets (lexical families) and fall into five groups according to their adverbial modification, suggests that the number of compound verbs is on the increase. On the other hand it appears to confirm Erdmann’s thesis that new compound verbs tend to arise directly on the basis of schemas or patterns, i.e. by analogy with a specific compound (one constituent of which serves as a patternforming element), rather than by conversion or back-formation.
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