INTRODUCTION 3
1. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WORD AS THE BASIC UNIT OF LANGUAGE 5
1.1 The definition of the word 5
1.2 Phonetic, Morphological And Semantic Motivation Of Words 8
2. GENERAL PROBLEMS OF WORD THEORY 12
2.1 The problem of polysemy of English words (on the basis of technical terms) 12
2.3 The problem of neology 15
CONCLUSION 23
REFERENCES 25
Appendix 27