Abstract:
The aim of the research is to study compounding as a way of forming
vocabulary in the Old and Middle English periods. The research objectives are the following:
- to consider the notion of compounding;
- to determine the ways of forming lexemes in English;
- to select the research material by systematic sampling (every 15th page)
from the dictionaries of the two periods under study;
- to conduct a quantitative analysis of the material obtained as a result of
systematic sampling and to identify the main features of compounding as a way of
forming vocabulary in the Old and Middle English periods.
