Abstract

The article deals with derivatives, directly or indirectly motivated by the noun China , being one word formation nest. Corpus analysis, as well as semantic and word formation analysis have been used. The research material includes encyclopedic and explanatory dictionaries of 21 century, the word-building dictionary, the Russian National Corpus, scientific and journalistic texts. The conclusion is that the words derived from the noun China include nouns, adjectives, adverb, verbs and are formed by affixes (prefixes, suffixes, prefixes-suffixes); by addition, including addition with affixoids, interfixes; by abbreviation and contamination; semantic derivation. The large number of derivatives are complex nouns, as well as names and nouns formed using prefixes and suffixes. In total there are 35 productive word-formation models, according to which more than 50 derivatives are formed from the word China.

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