Verbal Derivatives Referring to Love, Eroticism and Sex in the Modern Jargon of Russian Youth

Joanna Nawacka

Instytut Słowiańszczyzny Wschodniej Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie

Abstract

The article focuses on the structural analysis of 400 verbal nominations referring to love, eroticism and sex excerpted from modern Russian dictionaries.
Modern Russian youth jargon remains within the language system and is subjected to its fundamental rules. The structural analysis of research material presented in the article confirms high productivity of the morphemic word formation process. Derivation of verbs from verbal roots is based primarily on prefixation. Application of prefixal formants is highly developed and consti- tutes one of the most characteristic features of the word formation process of sociolectal Russian verbs. Suffixation, in turn, is characteristic of verbs derivated from nominal and adjectival roots. Among all the analyzed examples of jargonisms contaminations are infrequent.

Keywords:

jargon, verbal derivatives, prefixal, suffixal, paradigmatic, postfixal and complex formants suffixation, prefixation, contamination