FUNCTIONING OF THE FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PREFIX ANTI- IN MODERN RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article deals with formation of words with the help of the borrowed prefix anti-. It is noted that this prefix is of Greek origin, has the meaning of negation, opposites. Later this word expanded its meaning, it began to denote people with opposite properties or views. Since the 19th century, the Russian language has been actively borrowing words related to rhetoric, poetics, theology, philosophy. Vocabulary related to chemistry, medicine, physics is added to these words: antiseptic, antiseptic, antifebrin, antichlor, etc. Such borrowings began to easily take root in the language, since there were already quite a lot of borrowings with the prefix anti-before them. Subsequently, this prefix is easily combined with other Russian words, in as a derivational means to function more actively. Its main meaning is the expression of negativity, opposition. At the present time, there are many new opportunities for neoplasms. In particular, in the field of Internet communications, in journalism, where it is possible to use structures with modern derivational means, including with the prefix anti-, and impose such new formations on the virtual community. Originally borrowed from other languages, the prefix anti- with the meaning of negation, counteraction, negativity, becomes a productive word-formation tool in the field of the formation of new words and their forms in the nouns, adjectives of the Russian language.