Morphopoeia: новата дума като произведение и нейната морфемна структура
Morphopoeia: The Word As A Literary Work And Its Morphemic Structure

Author(s): Mikhail Epstein
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Morphology
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: word creation; morphemic structure; actual analysis; oxymoronyms; “jumping” morphemes; morphopoetics
Summary/Abstract: This article examines the morphemic structure of the word as an independent literary work that is minimal in scope (consisting of a single lexeme). Morphopoeia is a genre of word creation where morphemes serve as the raw material and individual words are the resulting works. When a word is not reproduced but rather produced in language (what M.Panov calls “linguistic audacity”), it becomes an independent communicative unit and acquires the properties of a sentence – that is, it can undergo functional sentence actual analysis into theme and rheme, with its constituent morphemes playing these roles. The semantic relationships between morphemes within a new word can be antonymous, leading to the creation of oxymoronyms – words consisting of morphemes with opposing meanings (for example, “glocal”). The article also examines the density of morphemic sequences and their quantitative measure – the index of word compactness: the more semantic units that correspond to phonetic units through morphemic compression of the word, the denser and more compact it becomes. The phenomenon of “jumping” morphemes is also analyzed – these are mobile morphological elements capable of moving from one fragment of the lexical system to another. Finally, the article establishes the place of morphopoetics, which studies morphopoeia, within morphemics: the study of word formation mechanisms should include the free, mobile correlation of morphemes in word creation.

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