Lexical functioning of word-building and the lexical-word-building system of theRussian language in the light of Internet statistics
The article is devoted to the study of the Russian derived words system. This system is consideredas a result of the action of two factors. These two factors include, on the one hand, the word-buildingsystem of the Russian language, realized in the derived words, and, on the other hand, the mechanismsof lexical functioning, to which the derived words are subordinated. The first of the two factors has auniversal, categorizing nature; the second has an individualizing nature (though tendencies towards theindividualization in the lexical word-building sphere resist the centripetal tendencies).The study material includes Russian verbal derivatives, united into the word-building paradigms(болеть/to be ill - заболеть/to fall ill - поболеть and the like). The research was based on the Internetstatistical data, including results of the search for definite words, including the words, which arenot fixed in the dictionaries of the Russian language (болеть - 16 mln. pages in Yandex, заболеть - 4mln. pages, поболеть - 303 thousand pages and the like). Such data show that the degree of masteringdifferent derived words is different. And the influence on the derived word is achieved both in thedirection of frequency increase (usually it is accompanied by creating idioms and, further, by creatingindependent lexical-semantic variants of word) and in the direction of frequency decrease, which appearsas a result of the word meaning specialization, leading to its displacement to the functional periphery.The article includes tables, which reflect quantitative and substantial relations between the membersof verbal word-building paradigms.Besides revealing objective laws of lexical-word-building correlations the article has a methodologicalrole in the demonstration of research possibilities of the Internet statistical data as a source oflinguistic information. In this connection the linguistic experiment results of N.B. Lebedeva are compared,revealing the linguistic consciousness phenomena of Russian common speakers, and the quantitativedata of the Internet. In the article a conclusion is drawn about their fundamental correlation inspite of the existing differences.
Keywords
словообразование, лексика, словообразовательная парадигма, внутриглагольное словообразование, потенциальное слово, окказионализм, узуальное слово, отглагольный дериват, статистика, word-building, lexis, word-building paradigm, intra-verbal word-building, potential word, nonce word, usual word, verbal derivative, statisticsAuthors
| Name | Organization | |
| Golev Nikolay D. | Kemerovo State University | ngolevd@mail.ru |
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