Аннотация:
Compounds is one of the most popular word types in the English language
and scientific style in particular. This article is dedicated to the problem of practical
classification of compounds in the texts of scientific register. It focuses on four par
ticular frameworks based on such criteria as part of speech, compliance of word se
mantics and constituent semantics, remainders of syntactic structure, intermediary
segment and formation of constituents. The choice of the method used fell on the
qualitative method of content frequencies analysis used for linguistic researches. With
the help of this method, the most frequently found compound type found has been
nominal, fully motivated, asyntactic, morphological compound. This pattern has been
linked to such scientific style features as nominalization, semantic clarity, and concise
character. Thus, compounds met appeared to reflect some distinctive peculiarities of
scientific register, which has been implied from predominant types in classifications
