International Journal of Philology

Word-forming models of neologisms of the Russian-Ukrainian war period

Oksana Tepla
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Abstract

The relevance of the study is conditioned by the need to explore new ways ¬of creating neologisms in the conceptual sphere of the “Russian-Ukrainian war”, find out their word-forming models, since in recent years words and phrases related to the military spheres have become part of everyday speech of Ukrainians. The purpose of the study was to identify and characterise productive affixal models of the creation of neologisms from the period of the Russian-Ukrainian war in the Ukrainian language. To achieve the research goal, the following methods were used: analysis of linguistic literature and generalisation (to highlight the theoretical foundations of lexicology, neology, word formation); comprehensive assessment of online publications (to select resources that represent the neo-lexicon of the period of the Russian-Ukrainian war); continuous sampling (to select neologisms); structural and semantic analysis (to determine word-forming models of derivatives of the specified period). For the creation of neologisms of the period of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the following affixal models are productive: word-forming models with a suffix formant; word-forming model with a prefix formant; word-forming models with a prefix and suffix formant (confix). The most common is the suffix word-forming model of the words “noun + word-forming suffixes -y-, uva- (-yva-) + form-forming suffix -ty = verb”. The group of nouns for persons, concepts, phenomena, and objects was actively expanded with neologisms by suffixing them, reflecting the interaction of external and internal factors of speech development. The analysis of neologisms created based on word-forming models with prefix and suffix formants indicates a significant number of verbal neologisms derived mainly from the names of weapons with the simultaneous use of specific affixes. The neologisms under study are marked by heterogeneous distribution, some of which may soon be codified in dictionaries. Practical significance is conditioned by the possibility of applying the results obtained in training courses on lexicology, neology of the Ukrainian language, for compiling dictionaries of neologisms 

Keywords

verbal neologisms; affixal model; affixation; word-forming formant; derivation

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Tepla, O. (2024). Word-forming models of neologisms of the Russian-Ukrainian war period. International Journal of Philology, 15(4), 63-76. https://doi.org/10.31548/philolog/4.2024.63
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