THE VOLUNTARY WAR OF THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE AGAINST THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE MIRROR OF THE UKRAINIAN WORD CREATION

Abstract

The article deals with the changes in the structure of the modern lexicon, determined by the aggressive war of the Russian Federation against the Ukrainian state. The purpose of the article – on the materials of media texts to identify and characterize the wordforming and morphonological characteristics of lexical innovations associated with the concepts of the Russian-Ukrainian war and their meanings in Ukrainian language. The object is derivative units of the modern lexicon that signify the manifestations of war, and the subject is the methods and models of their existence. The basis for the investigation was new creations recorded on the Internet after the fullscale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine. During the course of the research, it was confirmed that the vocabulary of each language is a dynamic structure, transformation in which represents the new realities of the social-political, economic and cultural life of the country, and useful tool for enriching the lexical word stock of language is word-creating resources. It has been said that the main functions of word creation in the lexical-semantic field “VIYNA” are the nomination and evaluation functions: on the one hand, derivatives nominate new concepts for the society, on the other hand, they convey the attitude of the speaker as to them, as well to those already known. It is shown that the language in the word creation area preserves its principal tendencies: before the processes of naming the realities of war it most actively receives the mechanisms of morphological word creation, while derivatives from other methods of word creation (lexicalsyntactic, lexical-semantic) among of the representatives of this field are also identified. The high productivity of the verbal suffix -и-, nominal suffixes -ець (-ів/ець), -ист, -изм, and various types of abbreviation have been documented. The importance of morphonological operations (extension of phonemes, truncation of morphemes) in the creations of derivatives of different part-language status using the suffix method has also been demonstrated.