ON THE ISSUE OF COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WORD FORMATION IN UNRELATED LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of derivation in unrelated languages. The author describes semantic spheres, as well as some methods in the modern comparative linguistics, which started to develop since the early time of the humanities in ancient times. It is noted that linguists conduct research choosing one of the methods: from a word to its meaning, or from meaning to a word. The paper studies different types of derivation, including the ones which are specific to particular languages.