The specificity of the description of prefixoids in neological academic lexicography

The article considers some principles of describing affixoids, especially prefixoids, in neological academic lexicography. Academic neography (neological academic lexicography) is a direction that appeared in the 1960s at the Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The founder of this direction is Nadezhda Z. Kotelova, who created a typology of dictionaries of new words (iling.spb.ru/departments/14). The linguistic part of the article discusses prefixoids - a borderline morphological and word-forming phenomenon that has attracted the attention of linguists since the 1960s. The article analyzes compound words formed with prefixoids to see the characteristics of prefixoids of the 1990s - early 2020s. The research material are three types of neological dictionaries, a neological database of the Institute for Linguistic Studies, the Integrum text database. The analysis of prefixoids in terms of structure and part-of-speech belonging made it possible to identify 24 variants of formants. As the statistics based on the continuous sampling method show, pre-fixoiding is the most active way of forming compound words in modern Russian: words formed this way make up half of the total vocabulary (two dictionaries of the New in Russian Vocabulary. Dictionary Materials series were analyzed). The combinatorial ability of prefixoids has increased compared to the end of the 20th century. This type of word formation covers all styles and spheres, including colloquial and substandard vocabulary. The article summarizes the ways of describing affixoids, in particular prefixoids, in the dictionaries of neological academic lexicography; dictionary entries are subjected to such an analysis for the first time. The structure of entries describing prefixoids since the mid-1990s is also described. Based on the analysis of dictionary entries describing affixoids in neography, in 2022, a team of researchers of the Institute for Linguistic Studies created an electronic lexicographic resource (af-fixoid.iling.spb.ru). The database contains about 700 prefixoids and 200 suffix-oids. As the best way to generalize and unify materials on affixoids, in particular the most active category of prefixoids, a lexicographic presentation of the material was chosen. The entry of the electronic resource was based on Affixoids of the Russian Language. Experience of a Reference Dictionary edited by Evgeny Levashov. The resource is intended for linguists, specialists in the field of Russian lexicology, lexicography, word formation and morphemics, as well as for the widest audience. The scientific potential of the resource and its main purpose is to summarize in lexicographic form information about Russian af-fixoids, as well as to unify their semantic description. The resource is also an auxiliary tool for creating word-formation references in the main neological electronic resource neolex.iling.spb.ru. The author declares no conflicts of interests.

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