Verbal Derivatives Referring to Love, Eroticism and Sex
in the Modern Jargon of Russian Youth Cover Image

Derywaty czasownikowe określające miłość, erotykę i seks we współczesnym rosyjskim żargonie młodzieżowym
Verbal Derivatives Referring to Love, Eroticism and Sex in the Modern Jargon of Russian Youth

Author(s): Joanna Nawacka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: jargon; verbal derivatives; prefixal; suffixal; paradigmatic; postfixal and complex formants suffixation; prefixation; contamination

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the structural analysis of 400 verbal nominations referring to love,eroticism and sex excerpted from modern Russian dictionaries. Modern Russian youth jargon remains within the language system and is subjected to itsfundamental rules. The structural analysis of research material presented in the article confirmshigh productivity of the morphemic word formation process. Derivation of verbs from verbal rootsis based primarily on prefixation. Application of prefixal formants is highly developed and constitutesone of the most characteristic features of the word formation process of sociolectal Russianverbs. Suffixation, in turn, is characteristic of verbs derivated from nominal and adjectival roots.Among all the analyzed examples of jargonisms contaminations are infrequent.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: XI
  • Page Range: 27-34
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish