Proper Nouns as Means of Conceptualizing Events in Contemporary English

Student: Oreshchuk Polina

Educational Programme: Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

The paper deals with the collocations of the Proper Noun + ‘moment’ type which are becoming increasingly popular in American English as means of conceptualizing events and experiences. The paper considers the semantic properties of the noun ‘moment’ which account for its use in the constructions under study. It observes groups of proper nouns that are most commonly used in them, traces the origins of some collocations, and focuses on the analysis and precise description of the conceptual mechanisms that underly this type of coinages.

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