Development of the vocabulary of the ukrainian language in the XXI century

Abstract

The article is focused on the linguistic analysis of the main features characterising the development of the Ukrainian vocabulary in the 21st century. The corpus of lexemes (over 500 units) collected from mass media, artistic and Internet discourses, as well as some from colloquial speech, served as the study material. As a result of the analysis, it was found out that the main sources of enrichment of the modern Ukrainian lexical-semantic system are as follows: 1) derivation of various neologisms based on national and foreign word-forming resources; 2) external new borrowings mainly from the English language and its American variant, as well as to a lesser extent from Italian, French, Japanese, German, Spanish,` and Russian languages; 3) colloquial uncodified neologisms; 4) various social dialectics (jargonisms and argotisms); 5) revived words. The author identifies and analyzes the most important trends in the development of the lexical structure of modern Ukrainian, which turned out to be effective within this period, namely: nationalization, internationalization, active use of bookish words, purification, colloquialization, anthropocentrism, feminization, etc. The strengthening of the analyzed trends demonstrates that the lexical system of modern Ukrainian is open, it is dynamically developing, responding to all the challenges of time and society.