Word Formation Research Articles

THE ROLE OF GREECK AND LATIN ELEMENTS IN FORMATION OF FRENCH SCIENTIFIC TERMINOLOGY

The article deals with the role of Greek and Latin elements in the formation of new words of a terminological nature in the modern French language. The author defines the main tendencies in functioning of the morphemes of foreign origin (Greek and Latin), which are characteristic of the language at the modern stage of its development. The article also reveals the main variants of word- formation, connected with the processes of lexicalization and grammaticalization.

Інноваційні процеси творення аксіологійних значень в українській лінгвокультурі: проєкція на антропоніми та їхні похід

Some changes connected with sociolinguistic factors, in particular, the Russian-Ukrainian war, that are taking place in the Ukrainian vocabulary are characterized. The trends of rethinking anthroponyms and their derivatives, which, thanks to the linguistic creativity of Ukrainians, are widespread in modern Ukrainian media discourse and recorded in dictionaries of new words and meanings, as carriers of evaluatively marked meanings and senses, are highlighted. The lexical structure of the Ukrainian language is being updated on the basis of the innovative word formation processes system.

The Language of Anti-Digital Resistance: Features of Protest Nomination Formation in Russian-Language Media Texts

The specifics of the word formation reflecting the certain protest of a society part against the Digital Society concept implementation in the country are considered on the material of Russian-language media texts. The aim of the study is to determine the semantic dominants and pragmatic peculiarities of the new nominations as the interpretive language function realization. The analysis of the material is carried out in line with functional sociolinguistics using the methodology of establishing the cognitive conditionality of language processes. The research resulted in revealing the contents of nominations, which reflect the protest attitude towards the concept of Digital Society. According to the type of the referent the following groups of lexical units are identified: the nominations of digitalization members, of the process itself and its consequences, as well as the foreseen future. The word-building peculiarities of the protest nominations are noted, their role in the key term elements structure of the Digital Society language is emphasized. The ‘restriction of freedom’ has been revealed to be the common semantic dominant of the new nominations. The coining of the units under consideration is characterized by the use of label-words and word-building formants that are typical of protest nominations. The semantic modification of the Digital Society terms shifts towards the ideologisation of meaning. The language and rhetoric of the official Digital Society concept followers, using their own ideologemes and word markers, are opposed to the language of the anti-digital resistance. The research outlook is in the analysis of pseudo arranging Digital Society nominations, which disguise the actual state of affairs.

Linguistic creativity of occasionalisms in Brandon Sanderson’s works

This paper investigates the linguistic creativity of authoral occasionalisms of American fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson on the material of his series of works “The Stormlight Archive”. The captivating phenomenon of occasionalisms is examined in the terms of linguistic creativity and measured according to the criteria we have derived. The study focuses on word formation, a linguistic tool that is the creative act of inventing new words. The art of word creation has long been a hallmark of human linguistic ingenuity, allowing us to create new concepts and give them appropriate denotations and connotations. As part of our study, we observe the way Brandon Sanderson, as a linguistic personality, gives semantics to the concepts and terms he has created, and “surrounds” them with pragmatics in the context of sentences and the overall narrative text. We hope to shed light on the understudied synergy between author and language/author and speech, thereby contributing to our understanding of how writers devote to the linguistic innovation, and shape the future of language itself. This research has implications not only for linguistics, but also for the development of understanding the potential of fiction to enrich speech, creative writing, and the evolution of language in our dynamic age.

Features of onyms in M. Karim’s works

Onomastics in fiction is a promising, young, but a rapidly developing branch of knowledge in linguistics. It expresses the importance of onomastic material in different ways, and its inclusion in scientific circulation covers the study of a wide range of historical, geographical and linguistic issues, starting from ancient times to the present time.Onyms are an important component of the semantic and stylistic system in the author’s use of language in fiction. They organically and willingly join the system of linguistic means of a literary text, participate in the formation of the work’s overall expressiveness, entering the author’s lexicon as an important indicator of the author’s style and creating an “onomastic space” of the work.Onyms in Bashkir, as well as in many Turkic languages, arouse the interest of many scientists. This article studies structural and word-formation features in the work of the national Bashkortostan poet Mustai Karim. A characteristic feature of the great writer’s literary texts is the use of word-formation suffixes in the onym formation in a work of fiction. In addition, we explored the components of these words. The study of the word formation structure and system of the presented lexemes proves that they will always comply with the norms of the Bashkir language.

Level Ordering and Lexical Phonology of Bangla: A Stratal Optimality Theoretic Analysis

This study deals with the different word formation processes in Bangla under the framework of Lexical Phonology and Stratal OT with both descriptive and theoretical goals. The study attempts a) to provide a description of the morphophonemics of Bangla that result from the concatenation of morphemes, b) to use the theory of Lexical Phonology and Morphology (Kiparsky, 1982,1985; Mohanan, 1982) and later developments in Stratal OT (Kiparsky, 2003; Bermudez- Otero and McMohan, 2006) and others.

A Benchmark for Morphological Segmentation in Uyghur and Kazakh

Morphological segmentation and stemming are foundational tasks in natural language processing. They have become effective ways to alleviate data sparsity in agglutinative languages because of the nature of agglutinative language word formation. Uyghur and Kazakh, as typical agglutinative languages, have made significant progress in morphological segmentation and stemming in recent years. However, the evaluation metrics used in previous work are character-level based, which may not comprehensively reflect the performance of models in morphological segmentation or stemming. Moreover, existing methods avoid manual feature extraction, but the model’s ability to learn features is inadequate in complex scenarios, and the correlation between different features has not been considered. Consequently, these models lack representation in complex contexts, affecting their effective generalization in practical scenarios. To address these issues, this paper redefines the morphological-level evaluation metrics: F1-score and accuracy (ACC) for morphological segmentation and stemming tasks. In addition, two models are proposed for morpheme segmentation and stem extraction tasks: supervised model and unsupervised model. The supervised model learns character and contextual features simultaneously, then feature embeddings are input into a Transformer encoder to study the correlation between character and context embeddings. The last layer of the model uses a CRF or softmax layer to determine morphological boundaries. In unsupervised learning, an encoder–decoder structure introduces n-gram correlation assumptions and masked attention mechanisms, enhancing the correlation between characters within n-grams and reducing the impact of characters outside n-grams on boundaries. Finally, comprehensive comparative analyses of the performance of different models are conducted from various points of view. Experimental results demonstrate that: (1) The proposed evaluation method effectively reflects the differences in morphological segmentation and stemming for Uyghur and Kazakh; (2) Learning different features and their correlation can enhance the model’s generalization ability in complex contexts. The proposed models achieve state-of-the-art performance on Uyghur and Kazakh datasets.

THE DYNAMICS OF SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION OF INDIVIDUALLY COINED AUTHOR’S NEOLOGISMS: FROM ‘VIOLATING’ THE LANGUAGE SYSTEM TO REALIZING ITS POTENTIAL

The description of author’s neologisms (occasional words) by linguistics demonstrates the dynamics of their scientific understanding: initially perceived as ‘violators’ of language standards, they eventually acquire the status of speech units that reveal the potential of the linguistic word-formation subsystem. In this regard, the canonical markers of occasionalisms need to be reconsidered. The most complicated marker of the author’s neologism is non-normativity: the very fact of its occurrence or inconsistency (structural or semantic) with the language word-formation standards could be considered non-normative. The question of the normativity/non-normativity of an occasional word in academia could be considered within the framework of diachronic and synchronic approaches. The study of the non-normativity markers of author’s neologism is most productive if carried out on the basis of a single semantic family realized in the text: within this approach occasional expressions that seem individually non-normative often form a coherent system that fits perfectly into linguistic word-formation standards. Within the academic perception discourse author’s neologism as a realized potential of the word-formation system should be distinguished from actual neologism - the result of word formation. In fact, the criteria for distinguishing neologisms from occasional words are not always clear, the boundaries are unsteady: there are many cases when an occasionalism starts to reproduce itself and enters the language vocabulary which might indirectly indicate that native speakers perceive it as a standard lexical unit. The change in the status of an occasional word in linguistics as well as general attention to the functioning of language noted in modern linguistics led to the fact that the author’s neology began to be studied at school: educational information about it is included in contemporary school Russian textbooks and workbooks.

SARATOV SCHOOL OF DERIVATOLOGY: PROBLEMS, RESULTS, PROSPECTS

The article presents the leading issues of research by Saratov derivatologists, describes the main results of the joint scientific search of the participants of the International Scientific Seminar “Development of the word-formation and lexical system of the Russian language”, functioning on the basis of the Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky (SGU) since 2008 under the guidance of professors O.I. Dmitrieva and O.Y. Kryuchkova, scientific prospects for further work are indicated. It is shown that research traditions in the field of word-formation derivatology developed at Saratov University in line with the development of a synchronous-diachronic method for analyzing semantic-word-forming subsystems and word-forming processes. Its application contributes to the understanding of the mechanism of word production, the identification of the word-formation potential of the language. Within the framework of derivatological issues, SGU has formed the main staff of its developers, identified scientific areas of research in the field of word-formation and lexico-semantic dynamics, published 7 collections of scientific articles, 8 monographs (2 of which are collective), 3 doctoral and 6 candidate dissertations were defended. Scientific activity is carried out in several directions: 1) a general methodology for the synchronous-diachronic study of word-formation subsystems and processes has been developed, the principles of synchronous-diachronic analysis of semantic-word-formation subsystems have been substantiated, the main trends in language dynamics have been identified and described; 2) complex synchronous-diachronic descriptions of a number of word-formation processes (intraverbal prefixation, reduplication), semantic-word-formation subsystems (abstract nouns, agentive verbs, evolutive verbs) were carried out; 3) diachronic description of word families with separate etymological roots; 4) the leading tendencies of neologization as a synchronous-diachronic process in the system of verbal vocabulary of the Russian language have been identified; 5) the problem of studying metaphorization as a derivational process is posed; 6) for Saratov derivatologists, the issue of the dynamics of the correlation of system-linguistic and individual-authorial in the process of word creation, as well as system-linguistic and functional, determined by the specifics of the use of word-building and lexical means in the text, remains relevant. The further perspective is determined by the study of the semantic and derivational specifics of the process of neologization of verbal vocabulary from the standpoint of linguistic diachrony, the identification of factors of cognitive modeling of the linguistic consciousness of native speakers by means of word formation, the description of the evolution of macro-units of the word-formation system: word-formation categories and word-formation families, their synchronous-diachronic analysis. Along with the already available synchronous-diachronic descriptions of other semantic-derivative subsystems, this should ultimately contribute to the development of the concept of historical derivatology.

Jugendsprache: bahasa remaja Jerman pada akun Instagram Funk

German youth language or Jugendsprache is a language style used by German teenagers and young adults in their daily communication. This language style is adopted by a German content network named Funk in its Instagram account posts to gain attention from its audience, which specifically targets people aged between 14 to 29 years old. The purpose of this research is to investigate the forms of Jugendsprache used by Funk in their Instagram posts. The design of this research is descriptive qualitative. The data corpus in total of 288 sentences was acquired from Funk’s Instagram account. The results unveiled that there were 177 lexicons, 55 word formations and 28 semantic shifts found from the data. Anglicism, in total of 112 data, is the most dominant lexicon phenomenon compared to the others. Another significant process are 29 composition data in word formation and 23 extensions of meaning data in semantic shift. From this research, it was found that English is widely used in Funk’s contents, either in the form of words, phrases, sentences in full English or English words adopted into the German morphological system. Funk utilizes English to make their contents interesting for its’ target audience, the young people.

BArBENHEIMEr OR oPPENBArBIE: A CASE STUDY IN LEXICAL CREATIVITY AND LUDICITY IN ENGLISH

Language creativity is a complex topic involving many different and mutually inter- twined aspects. In this paper we deal with lexical creativity in English and discuss several key issues relevant to it: the relationship between productivity and creativity, the concepts of ludicity and wordplay, the attention-seeking function of lexical creativity, and the importance of extra- linguistic factors in lexical creativity. To illustrate how these issues pertaining to lexical creativity are reflected in the actual process of forming creative coinages, we focus specifically on the at- tention-grabbing and the naming functions of lexical blending as one of the most creative and most playful word formation processes in English, using as an example the blend Barbenheimer, recently coined for a particular purpose of a double feature of the two different films premiering on the same date. We discuss the formal structure of this blend, its semantic features, as well as its iconicity and the degree of predictability exhibited in the way the names of two blockbusters were amalgamated to form a blend.

Soziolinguistische Aspekte des kolumbianischen Spanisch: Der Parlache

Abstract This article deals with the sociolinguistic phenomenon of parlache in Colombian Spanish, which has developed from an argot into a sociolect. It has found its way into the general language and has become an integral part of the vocabulary of Colombians. The Parlache was originated in the marginal and peripheral sectors of the city of Medellín (Antioquia region), where it spread mainly among marginalised and therefore criminal youth from the slums. In contrast to many other slangs, jargots or argots, the parlache has meanwhile evolved from a so-called “anti-language” to a widespread idiom, especially among young people. But it has also conquered the media and found its way into literature, theatre and music, and is used and propagated, for example, by the well-known Colombian singer Juanes. The article traces the emergence of parlache since the 1980 s, analyses its main word formation patterns and provides some lexical examples. Furthermore, it will shed light on the reasons for the popularisation of this sociolect, which include, among others, the enormous linguistic wit and creativity of the speakers. Despite its peculiarities, the phenomenon is hardly known outside Colombia, and there are only a few works on it in the German-speaking world. Therefore, in conclusion, the need for further research is also pointed out, since a further popularisation, especially by the German-speaking countries, is expected.

Temporal Action Segmentation in Sign Language System for Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI) Videos Using Optical Flow-Based Approach

Sign language (SL) is vital in fostering communication for the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Continuous Sign Language Translation (CSLT) is a work that translates sign language into spoken language. CSLT translation is done by changing continuous forms into isolated signs. Segmenting morpheme signs from phrase signs has several challenges, such as the availability of annotated datasets and the complexity of continuous gesture movements. The Indonesian Sign Language (SIBI) system follows Indonesian grammatical norms, including word formation, in contrast to other sign languages with rules derived from their spoken language. In SIBI, a word can consist of a root word and an affix word. Therefore, temporal action segmentation in SIBI is important to reconstruct the results of translating each sign into spoken Indonesian sentences. This research uses an optical flow approach to segment temporal actions in SIBI videos. Optical flow methods that calculate changes in intensity between adjacent frames can be used to determine the occurrence of sign movement or vice versa to determine the delay between sign movements. The absence of intensity differences between the two frames indicates the boundary between sign gestures. This study tested the use of dense optical flow on videos containing SIBI sentences taken from 3 signers. Evaluation is done on several parameters in the dense optical flow algorithm, such as threshold size, PyrScale, and WinSize, to obtain the best accuracy. This paper shows that the optical flow algorithm successfully performs segmentation, as measured by Perf and F1r. The experimental results showed that the highest Perf and F1r yields were 0.8298 and 0.8524, respectively.

Wakamono Kotoba dalam Anime "Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun" (Yamazakie, 2014)

This study examines wakamono kotoba contained in the anime "Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun". The purpose of this study is to describe the types and processes of formation of wakamono kotoba contained in the anime "Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun". The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive using the technique of listening to and recording in data collection. After the data is collected, the data is analyzed with qualitative analysis techniques. The results showed that there are 261 wakamono kotoba data in the anime "Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun" divided into 6 types, namely shouryakugo (49 data), kyouchougo (5 data), giongo-gitaigo (3 data), kogo (2 data), hougen (3 data), and gairaigo (159 data). Through the theory of Japanese word formation (gokeisei), it was found that the wakamono kotoba contained in the anime "Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun" was formed through haseigo (3 data), karikomi/shouryaku (49 data), fukugougo/giseigo (1 data), and toujigo (2 data). Based on the large amount of data, it can be understood that most wakamono kotoba comes from the absorptive language (gairaigo), and is formed through abbreviation (shouryaku).

Word Formation in Esperanto: Derivation

Word Formation in Esperanto: Derivation

U.S.K., S.T. “UKRAINE”, FC “KARPATY”, FC “RUH”: THE NAMES OF THE UKRAINIAN TEAMS IN THE 130-YEAR HISTORY OF LVIV FOOTBALL

The article examines the names of Lviv football teams over the 130-year history of football development in the city of Lviv. The subject of the analysis is the motivational base and peculiarities of creating the names of football clubs in Lviv. Sources of factual material – sports periodicals, archival materials, works of sports historians and information received from football experts. In the early days of Lviv football, Ukrainian teams chose names with a national and cultural component in their meaning, taking care to identify Ukrainian teams among clubs of other nations. In the 1920s and 1930s, teams had names with onyms and appellatives that indicated associations with the historical, geographical, and cultural realities of Great Ukraine to demonstrate the unity of the nation and Ukrainian ethnic lands. Some of the nominations contained connotations important to Ukrainians in Galicia, which indicates a careful selection of representative names for Ukrainian clubs in Lviv. In the Soviet period, the colonial influence on the naming system of Lviv football teams was manifested in the unification of club names in accordance with the established canon of naming and in the tendency to reflect Soviet realities and ideological symbols in the names. After the restoration of Ukrainian independence, the percentage of teams that chose to name lexemes with an ethnocultural component in the meaning increased noticeably. Individual clubs have retained the names of the totalitarian period. The consequence of the influence of the commercial factor on the naming of wives is an increase in the number of nominations that come from the names of sponsors of football teams. So, the names of Lviv football clubs arose as a result of onimization and transonymization as the main methods of lexical-semantic word formation. Football naming was influenced by various factors – national, totalitarian and commercial, the mixing of which was recorded at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries. Key words: names of Lviv football teams, motivation of names, onimization, transonymization.

THE DERIVATIVE WORDS FROM THE NOUNS WITH PREFIX НЕДО- (NEDO-) AS AN ACTIVE MODERN TREND DEVELOPMENT OF THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE IN DERIVATION

The article is devoted to the study of active processes of word formation in the modern Ukrainian language. Its purpose is to study the activation of the production of noun derivatives formed by the prefix nedo-, as one of the regularities of the development of the modern process of word formation in the Ukrainian language. The object of research is the modern process of word formation in the Ukrainian language. The subject of the analysis is the increase in productivity of the substantive noun word-formation type with the prefix nedo- as a sign of the derivational process. The material of observation is substantive nouns formed by the prefix nedo-, which are characterized by negative semantics to indicate the inferiority of someone or something. As a result of the conducted research, the specifics of the derivation of substantive nouns formed by the prefix nedo- have been clarified. Conclusions. The reasons for the increase in the productivity of the word-formation type, on the basis of which the analyzed occasionalisms are created, are determined. Among them there are the political and socio-economic changes of the period of independent Ukraine, the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war, which require the nomination and assessment of new concepts; democratization of society; activation of specific word formation processes; high system performance of the studied word-formation type.

UNIVERSAL AND SPECIFIC IN THE FORMATION AND FUNCTION OF COMPOUND ABBREVIATED WORDS IN THE INDO-EUROPEAN AND CHINESE LANGUAGES

The purpose of the proposed study is to determine universal and specific features in the systems of compound abbreviated words of some Indo-European languages (Ukrainian, Polish, English, French, Italian, German), which are inflectional in their morphological nature and have letter graphics, and the Chinese language, which is the root language and has hieroglyphic graphics. The object of study is the abbreviations of the above-mentioned languages and trends in the functioning of these language units. The subject of research is the relationship between the derivatives of compound abbreviated units and those language units that act as creative for them. The material of the study was taken from several dictionaries of abbreviations, and many lists and realities available for review. In total, more than 4500 language units were considered, of which almost 1150 (in total from different languages) were analyzed. It should be noted that only those units that are formed from word combinations, i.e. compound abbreviated words, were studied; Abbreviations of one word were not considered as an object of analysis. The main methods of research are general methods of analysis and synthesis, procedures of methods of comparative, word-forming, syntactic, graphic analysis and descriptive method. The result of the analysis is presented in a number of conclusions. The formation and functioning of compound abbreviated words is a linguistic universal at the present stage of language development. Representatives of the linguistic schools formed on the basis of the Indo-European languages consider the law of economy of speech means to be the “driving force” of the abbreviation process. In Chinese linguistics, there is an opinion that the phenomenon of contraction is natural for the Chinese language, because it reflects the ancient monosyllabicity of Chinese words. In different languages, the set of ways to form compound abbreviated words depends on their typological features, the rules of the order of words in combinations, graphic features of written speech, pronunciation features, and methods of word formation.

The Effect Of Teaching Basics Of English Morphology On EFL Students' Vocabulary Mastery

This study investigates the impact of introducing the basics of English morphology to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. Morphology, the study of word formation and structure, is fundamental to understanding and mastering any language. The research focuses on how foundational knowledge of English morphology influences EFL students' language acquisition and proficiency. By incorporating morphological instruction into the curriculum, students can enhance their vocabulary, improve their reading comprehension, and develop a deeper understanding of grammatical structures. The study involved a group of EFL students who received systematic instruction in morphology, including the identification and usage of roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Pre- and post-tests were administered to measure the student's progress. The results indicated a significant improvement in the student's linguistic skills, particularly their ability to decode and construct words and overall language comprehension. The findings suggest that integrating morphology into EFL teaching strategies can provide substantial benefits, facilitating more effective language learning and boosting students' confidence in English. This research underscores the importance of morphological awareness in EFL education and offers practical implications for educators aiming to enhance their teaching methods to support student success in acquiring English.

Linguistic analysis of Chinese neologisms from 2017 to 2021

Lexicon is the most sensitive component of language in mirroring the changes in society. In this paper, Chinese neologisms were investigated from the perspective of their origins, characteristics and word formation, drawing the corpus of Chinese neologisms from the Language Situation in China from 2017 to 2021. Findings suggest that contemporary Chinese neologisms primarily stem from six sources: 1) new coinages; 2) existing words used with new meanings; 3) new words coined by media, magazines and news agencies; 4) internet neologisms; 5) words from dialects; 6) loanwords from other languages. In terms of the characteristics of Chinese neologisms, it is observed that in contrast to the dominance of disyllabic words in traditional Chinese, multi-syllabic words are emerging as a prominent trend in Chinese neologisms. Finally, a linguistic analysis of the corpus has been conducted to identify the formation of new words at the phonetic, morphological and semantic levels, resulting in the proposal of six categories: homophony, compounding, abbreviation, derivative words, words with letters/numbers, and rhetorical words.