Juznoslovenski filolog 2020 Volume 76, Issue 2, Pages: 105-125
https://doi.org/10.2298/JFI2002105K
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The approaches to the description of innovations in the modern Ukrainian neography
Karpilovska Ievgeniia A. (Institute for the Ukrainian language at the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv), kvs@ukrpack.net
The intensive development of the Ukrainian language at the turn of the 21st
century due to its new status as the official language of independent
Ukraine, the essential changes in Ukrainian society and Ukraine’s openness
to globalisation have led to the forming of new disciplines in Ukrainian
linguistics - neology and neography. They present two interconnected
approaches to the analysis and lexicographic description of new language
units (innovations) - the differential and the integral approach. The first
approach involves the study of innovations in comparison with the existing
units of the language, the search of criteria for determining their types by
the features of their novelty in the language system and in text. The second
approach focuses on the degree of stability of innovations in modern
Ukrainian, i.e. the importance of concepts they verbalise in the conceptual
and the linguistic worldview of the modern Ukrainians. The functional
potential of a certain innovation in the linguistic activity of a society is
an indicator of the degree of its stability in the language. It is a set of
units consisting of innovation by paradigmatic, syntagmatic and epidigmatic
(derivational) relations. The analysis of the word as the basic unit of
Ukrainian nomination, prediction and evaluation enable the identification
of other types of language innovations. The modern Ukrainian lexicon
presents the following types of neologisms: new derivatives, new borrowings,
neosemanticisms, neographisms, actualised and returned words. The
application of the differential approach is advisable when gathering new
language material, whereas the integrated approach is necessary when
identifying the stabilised linguistic innovations, as it can be a resource
for replenishing the general lexicon of a language. The results of the
analysis of this new lexicon are presented in the differential and integral
neological dictionaries.
Keywords: Ukrainian language, neology, neography, differential dictionary, integral dictionary, innovation, neolexeme