A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANTONOMASIA IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC

Abstract

Antonomasia is a word-formation process in English, in which new verbs, nouns and adjectives are derived from proper names.The present contrastive study investigates the word-formation process antonomasia in English and in its counterpart in Arabic. The study will shed the light on the differences of this phenomenon in both language systems. The study also aims at investigating the purposes behind using antonomasia in the languages under investigation.