TRUNCATION AS A PRODUCTIVE WAY OF COMPRESSIVE WORD FORMATION IN MODERN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article deals with one of the productive ways of modern word production – truncation. Derivational truncations are analyzed in different aspects: structural and word-formation, lexical-semantic, grammatical and stylistic. The correlation of truncations and derivational bases by gender and declension is carried out. The cases when the derivation of a derivative by this method changes its meaning are noted. It is established that borrowed words are also subject to truncation. In them truncation can take place along the boundary of morphemes distinguished in the source language, but it can also be arbitrary. Compressive word formation is most productive in colloquial speech and often serves to create a lexicon of limited use. The article concludes that truncation is most active in youth student slang; In the slang of computer users, in the jargon of various declassed groups of society, etc., all this reflects the tendency towards expressiveness of speech.