Mayakovsky, a language innovator? Word-formation of Mayakovsky's neologisms, their structure and role in contemporary Russian

Abstract

This paper deals with the word-formation of Mayakovsky's neologisms, the principles of their composition and also the objects subjected to neologization. Attention is also paid to the Nachleben of these neologisms in contemporary Russian, based on the research into the Russian National Corpus.

Keywords

• Neologisms
• Mayakovsky
• corpus
• russian language