Abstract
"This article highlights the problems of modern word-formation in the English language. By their structure, complex and derived words are adapted to express and convey a figurative representation of the world: the presence of two or more bases presupposes an initial correlation with two or more referents, their comparison. Complex and derived words in modern English serve as a means of saving speech, as a way of concentrating information in compressive units, as well as imagery in a literary text, act as author’s revisionalisms, all these issues are reflected in the presented article. The purpose of the study is to describe the morphological features of English nouns, the features of their structure and the process of formation of new units of nominative vocabulary. The objectives of the study determined the range of tasks that needed to be solved in the process of work: to reveal the features of the morphological structure of English nouns; to study the manifestation of morphological features of English nouns in written speech on the example of English-language articles; to show the difference in frequency characteristics and the degree of productivity of word-formation methods in the system of English nouns. The findings indicated in the article indicate the ability of a number of derived and complex words in the modern English language to show the morphological characteristics of certain parts of speech in their internal structure in the making of neologisms in modern English fiction. "