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The word-building methods lying behind the formation of brand names are thoroughly researched. However, little is known about the word-formation potential of the trade marks themselves though the phenomenon may significantly contribute to the study of neologisms and the ways that help to enrich the vocabulary. This work is devoted to studying the peculiarities of word formation processes occurring on the basis of word trade marks in the English language. The author studies composition, affixation and conversion as...

Due to fast development of new technologies, to emerging of new products and to discoveries being done in different spheres of life, any language experiences its getting enlarged. All these factors cause positive changes in expansion of a language where a lot of specialized words appear which fix and transmit the knowledge contained in those achievements. To express that knowledge different terminological units representing many phenomena of a lot of scientific areas are used. It is known that specialized words ar...

This paper presents “second life” of abandoned Christian temples. It focuses on searching for modern methods of saving the architecture of temples from ruination and profanation, while ensuring its dignified transformation. It presents selected examples of full or partial reconstructions of the ruins of temples and interconfessional conversions in the last quarter of a century in Poland. Apart from a retrospective look at first post-war buildings of this type there are also latest author projects introduced. They ...