Active derivational processes in the field of univerbation in scientific and media discourse

About the author:

Anna V. Batulina, Cand. Sci. (Philol.), Associate Professor, Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, Veliky Novgorod, Russia; b.av@bk.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6341-5965

Abstract:

This article presents the results of a multidimensional analysis of productive types of univerbation in scientific and media discourse. Analyzing various perspectives on the univerbation phenomenon, the author explains univerbation as a process of forming a one-word nomination based on a stable phrase or combination with an adjacent analyte adjective, in which an attributive or substantive component bearing the main semantic load becomes the formal representative of the motivating one. Both the motivating phrase as a whole and one of the phrases included in the generating database can have semantic integrity in the univerbation. Based on the quantitative analysis of the use of neological univerbs, the results show that in media speech, in a group of meaningfully equivalent suffixal and coderivate univerbs formed by zero suffixation, there is a gradual withdrawal from the use of derivatives with a materially pronounced suffix. Having analyzed contexts of using univerbs in the media, Internet communication, and academic speech, the authos has described the word-formation structure of neological univerbs, models of motivating phrases, and productive formants. The tendency to increase productivity in the analyzed types of discourse of the univerbs with a zero suffix is revealed.

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