Active processes in the morphological system of the modern Russian journalistic style: Innovations and archaisms

Abstract

The aim of the study is to establish trends in the use of innovative and archaic morphological forms in the aspect of productive processes in the modern Russian language using the example of the journalistic style. The scientific novelty of the study is that it provides the first description of trends in the development of the morphological system of the modern Russian language in terms of the use of linguistic innovations and archaisms at the morphological level in the journalistic style, which reflect tendencies in the manifestation of analytical features in the language. The study established that the modern Russian language demonstrates stable analytical tendencies, which are determined by the penetration of non-literary forms into the literary language, which ultimately reduces the number of morphemes. In the course of describing the linguistic material selected from the texts of the modern Russian journalistic style, the following analytical trends were identified: 1) a decrease in the number of cases; 2) simplification of the declension paradigm of nouns; 3) an increase in the use of unchangeable nouns and adjectives, reflecting the tendency to use abbreviations; 4) an increase in the importance of nouns with a common gender. The study showed that the modern Russian language in the journalistic style demonstrates analytical tendencies expressed in a decrease in the number of cases, simplification of declension of nouns, an increase in the use of unchangeable parts of speech and an increase in the importance of nouns of common gender, which leads to a decrease in the number of morphemes.