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Answer the following questions:
1. What words are called ‘compounds’?
2. What is motivation in compounds?
3. What compounds are called ‘subordinative’? “Coordinative’?
4. What criteria cab be used in classification od compounds?
5. What grammatical classes of compounds do you know?
6. How can we distinguish compounds from phraseological units?
LECTURE 12. CONVERSION AND SHORTENING AS WORD FORMATION MEANS
Plan of the lecture:
1. Historical development of conversion and its origin
2. Semantic relations between converted pairs and motivation
3. Shortening and its types
4. Clippings and their classification
5.Abbreviation and its types
6. Mixed forms of shortening

In previous lectures we started to discuss the types of word formation in English. This lecture is also devoted to some of the basic types of word formation.