Structural analysis of primordial terms of German terminology of engineering psychology

The purpose of the given article is consideration of structural features,characteristic for primordial terms of German terminology of engineering psychology. The carried out structural analysis of the madesample has confirmed that the structure of terms of engineering psychology possesses characteristic features for all German scientificand technical terminology. In English and German there are terms similar in the morphological structure (simple, derivative or derivatives,complex or composites and abbreviated words or abbreviations), as results of similar ways of word-formation. The investigatedterminology totals to 3512 terminological units from which we refer to 2284 as primordially German terms. The given group is presentedby simple single-root terms, derivative or affixal terms (derivatives), compound terms or terminological composites, terminologicalcombinations and abbreviations. The results of the conducted structural research of primordial terms of German terminology of engineering psychology have shown that there are 5 structural types of terms in the analyzed material: 1. Simple single-root terms formedin the semantic way, i.e. by means of various kinds of change of values. The given terms are components of word combinations, compoundwords and serve as the centers of families of words (23 terminological units). 2. The investigated terminology is characterized bya wide use of abbreviations with an obvious domination of alphabetic abbreviations (91 terms). 3. Terminological word combinationsare presented by two-component attributive word combinations which consist of the core, the head element expressed by a noun, and anattributive, defining component (571 terminological combinations). 4. Derivative terms are a group with 640 terminological units. Duringthe research we revealed the most productive model of derivative terms in which the term-forming stem is combined simultaneouslywith a prefix and a suffix. 5. Complex terms include 959 units. The most widespread type of compound terms in the investigated terminologyis two-component attributive composites. The given terms prevail in German terminology of engineering psychology. As a result,it is possible to draw following conclusions: 1) the structural analysis of primordial terms of engineering psychology has shown thatthe investigated terms are created by ways of word-formation traditional for the German language; 2) in German terminology of engineeringpsychology there are all types of morphological structure of words, characteristic for modern German language.

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