THE WORD-BUILDING PATTERNS OF COMPOSITE WORDS THAT COME INTO THE LEXICAL-SEMANTIC GROUP “WOMAN” IN THE HIGH OLD GERMAN, THE HIGH MIDDLE GERMAN AND THE HIGH NEW GERMAN LANGUAGES

Abstract

In the article there have been analyzed the word-building patterns of the composite words, that come into the lexicalsemantic group “woman” in the different periods of the development of the German language. The analysis involves such parts of speech as nouns, adjectives and verbs. It is pointed out the availability of the certain word-building patterns, suffixes and prefixes which were used in each period and which weren’t subjected to the essential changes in the next stages of the German language development.