Процессы аббревиации в типологически разнородных и генетически неродственных языках
Abbreviation processes in typologically heterogeneous and genetically unrelated languages

Author(s): Evgeny Aleksandrovich STEPANOV
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology, Lexis, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Stylistics
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: compound abbreviated word; word combination; letter and character; the IndoEuropean languages; the Chinese language
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to determine universal and specific features in the systems of compound abbreviated words of some Indo-European languages, and the Chinese language. The subject of research is the relationship between the derivatives of compound abbreviated units and those language units that act as creative for them. The analysis of 4500 units made it possible to draw the following conclusions. The formation and functioning of compound abbreviated words is one of linguistic universals. European and American linguistic schools consider the law of speech means economy to be the "driving force" of the abbreviation process. In Chinese linguistics, there is an opinion that the phenomenon of contraction is natural for the Chinese language: it reflects the ancient monosyllabicity of Chinese words. In different languages, the set of ways to form compound abbreviated words depends on their typological, pronunciation, graphic features, the rules of the words order in combinations, and methods of word formation.

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