Keyword: «compounding»

The article aims at describing morphological peculiarities of anthroponyms used by Cornelia Maria Funke in her Inkheart trilogy. All names are classified into five groups according to their morphological structure. The article can be used by teachers of German at schools and universities, students of foreign languages and all those interested in problems of word-formation.

The article considers the role of compounding as a productive way of word formation of adjectives in German. The author of the article presents the classification of adjectival composites, analyzes the semantic characteristics of complex adjectives in German, and identifies the correspondences in Russian.

This article is devoted to the study of word-formation potentials of German nouns. The paper analyzes the word-formation capabilities of nouns based on units, the word-formation components of which are the lexeme Musik. The main ways of forming words with the basis Musik are identified, the realization of the meanings of the lexeme Musik in words formed from it is analyzed.