OCCASIONAL AND POTENTIAL WORDS OF SERGEI EISENSTEIN

Abstract

Eisenstein became the author of several hundred new words that can be characterized as occasional and potential words. The shorthand lectures of the director, delivered by him in the course of study at VGIK in the 1933–1934 academic year, served as the language material for the study. To qualify lexemes as potential words and occasional expressions, the Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language edited by D.N. Ushakov (1935–1940) was used. The article analyzes 49 words in which the director himself felt a sign of novelty, unconventionality, originality. Such author’s neoplasms are highlighted in quotation marks in the text of lectures. From the point of view of the methods of education, we note: metonymic and metaphorical use; word formation not according to the usual model of derivation, violating the morphology of the Russian language; the formation of potential words according to the usual models of derivation (prefix, suffix, prefix-suffix, non-suffix methods, word composition, addition with simultaneous suffixation); unconventional word usage.