Ukrainian Blends-Neologisms as the Reflection of Current Social and Political Situation: a Splendid Prophecy or a 20-years’ Collapse
Ukrainian Blends-Neologisms as the Reflection of Current Social and Political Situation: a Splendid Prophecy or a 20-years’ Collapse

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with lexical blends functioning in Y. Pashkovskyi’s work Що- денний жезл [Everyday warder]. It is said that a striking picture of Ukraine being on the way of economic, political, and social collapse can be seen through neologisms in Ukrainian postmodern literature. The study provides the characteristics of Ukrainian blends, discusses their structures, and examines the development of their constituent parts (the so-called splinters) into new morphemes. The different kinds of contexts in which blends tend to occur characterizing the current political and social situation in Ukraine are analyzed. The comparative analysis of Ukrainian blends as single words and in contexts has also been made in this research.

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