Abstract
<jats:p>This article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the word formation and semantic features of deonymic newly formed words in M. Semenko’s literary works. The problem lies in the insufficient study of the author’s deonymic derivation in avant-garde poetry, in contrast to contemporary media texts. The aim of this study is to identify and describe the structural and semantic models of deonymic derivatives used by the poet M. Semenko, as well as to compare these individual authorial features with general linguistic trends recorded in contemporary Ukrainian linguistics. The material for analysis was a selection of 19 newly formed words obtained by means of a complete sample from the author’s literary texts. The generalized results showed that M. Semenko’s word formation coincides with contemporary trends, but also has authorial features. It was established that confixation dominates (9 units), which indicates a tendency toward semantic compression. The high productivity of “step over” word formation (for example, the formation of adverbs vakhanno and reflexive verbs bodlerytysya without intermediate links) also corresponds to general linguistic trends. Similar to general linguistic data, anthroponyms prevail among the word bases (12 units). At the same time, a key authorial discrepancy has been identified: in contrast to the dominance of nouns in the general language, M. Semenko’s works show the absolute dominance of verbal vocabulary (13 units). Semantic analysis revealed a number of patterns: qualitative characteristics (“in the manner of X” and behave like X”), transitive negative action (“annoy in the manner of X”), action-influence (“treat Y as X”) or art period exhaustion (“exhausting the manner of X”) in the case of prefix -od, nominative compression. It has been established that affixal morphemes, especially prefixes, act as active semantic-connotative modifiers: o-/od- (intensification), za-/ob- (negative connotation of excess), roz- (semantic reorientation). Compounding and fusion are used to create ironic nominations.</jats:p>