Occasional Word Formation in Stoyan Mihaylovski’s Works (Letters N through Я) Cover Image

Оказионалното словотворчество в произведенията на Стоян Михайловски (букви н – я)
Occasional Word Formation in Stoyan Mihaylovski’s Works (Letters N through Я)

Author(s): Teodora G. Ilieva
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexis, Historical Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Stoyan Mihaylovski; lexical оccasionalisms; rare words; semantic variant; derivational structure
Summary/Abstract: As a bright marker of the author’s idiolect, the оccasionalisms in the rhythmic and narrative works of Stoyan Mihaylovski are original and colourful verbal representations of the author’s insights, emotions and sociopolitical assessments. In the present study 32 hapax legomena and rare words have been lemmatized and analyzed in alphabetical order – from letter N to letter Yа. They have been excerpted from several Stoyan Mihaylovski’s works. Тhese lexemes have been compared with more than 40 Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian and Modern Bulgarian and Russian texts (originated in the XI–XX century) to highlight their originality. Criteria for this analysis are: morphemic structure, denotative and connotative semantics, word formative ways, stylistic scope of use, their synonym corelats and the diffusion of occasionalisms in the Modern Bulgarian language.