Lingual Innovations with the Component SMART in the English Language

Abstract

The article focuses on the study of word-building, structural and semantic development of the English neologisms with the component SMART under the influence of certain extralinguistic factors. The degree of word-building potential of the lexeme SMART, which serves as the basis for creating a significant number of derivatives and compound words in Modern English, is conditioned by some extralinguistic factors, namely, the relevance of objects or phenomena it designates and some linguistic factors as it belongs to the core lexical units characterized by chronological stability, stylistic neutrality, frequency and morphological simplicity. Some types of new lexical units have been determined in the article. Special attention has been attached to morphological and semantic ways of building up lexical units, their pragmatic meanings; basic structuralsemantic patterns have been singled out. The correlation between certain extralinguistic and lexico-semantic processes has been established. The research of the pragmatic component of neologisms in possible contexts is considered to be important.