NEOLOGISMS IN UKRAINIAN TRANSLATIONS OF BOŁESŁAW LEŚMIAN POETRY

Abstract

The article deals with peculiarities of translations of neologisms of the Polish poet Bolesław Leśmian’s works into Ukrainian. Translation of Bolesław Leśmian’s poetry into different languages meets difficulties due to the fact, that a lot of author’s neologisms appear in it and motivate translator to thoroughly analyze the peculiarities of author’s derivation and make their own strategy of neologisms’ reproduction in the language of translation. Study of experience of translators this poet’s works into Italian, English and other languages helps literature researcher to systematize and accommodate difficulties which appear on the way of choosing the corresponding lexeme or making up a neologism. Due to familiarization with the artist’s worldview, the style of his writing, features of making up neologisms and utilizing them in the original texts, conclusions about making up and functioning of the new words in the texts of translation have been formulated. The translator of B. Łeśmian’s poetry into Ukrainian Marianna Kiianovska utilized all spectrums of possibilities of Ukrainian derivation and actual productive formants in order to make up neologisms and reproduce the style of poet’s writing. The examples from the book of selected poems "Angels" have been given in the article and the peculiarities of appearing of Ukrainian neologisms belonging to different parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, numerals, adverbs) have been analyzed. The similarity of both Ukrainian and Polish languages allows to take advantage of the derivations formants of source language to transfer Polish lexemes to Ukrainian speaking field and to make up new words, which are analogous to existing, even on condition that formant loses its productivity. The ways of derivation, impact of the idea of original texts and original author’s neologisms on the translator’s strategy and word selection, the role of tropes, idioms and analogies in the process of new words appearing have been researched.