COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX WORDS WITH AN ADJECTIVE COMPONENT DENOTING COLOR IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH

Abstract

The article provides a comparative analysis of complex words with an adjective component denoting color in Russian and English. It is noted that complex words are the result of transition of phraseological units into the category of complex words, sometimes an intermediate category between them. The components of free combinations and complex words do not differ from each other in their external form. Distinguishing between complex syntactic words and free phrases, it is important to take into account morphological design, stress, separate and merged spelling. The graphic criterion in the Russian language is the leading one in the definition of a complex word, which cannot be said in relation to the English language. Compound words with adjectives denoting color in English are represented by combined, syntactic and neutral types of compound words. They are heterogeneous both in terms of morphological and syntactic structure. They are also heterogeneous in terms of the degree of differentiation from free phrases and phraseological units. In the Russian language, the nature of these words is peculiar. They are characterized by the formation on their basis of derivatives of different categorical lexical units, the entry of adjectives into the composition of new stable combinations of words.