Productive ways of word formation of adverbial units in modern German colloquial language

Nikitina Elena Aleksandrovna

To determine the productive ways of word production of German colloquial adverbial units, the scope of some concepts is specified, such as synchronous and diachronic word formation, generating and derived basis, word-formation motivation, word-formation model. The main criteria for assigning units to semi-suffixes are determined. Word composition and word production with the help of semi-suffixes are considered as the main models of the formation of German colloquial adverbial units.

Keywords:German colloquial adverbial units, word formation, word-formation model, derivative and generating base, semi-suffix, word-formation motivation, word composition.