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

Abstract

The article deals with lexical blends functioning in Y. Pashkovskyi’s work “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 research provides the characteristics of Ukrainian blends, discusses their structure, and examines the development of their constituent parts (splinters) into new morphemes. The different kinds of contexts in which blends tend to occur to characterize current political and social situation in Ukraine are analyzed. The comparative analysis of Ukrainian blends comprehension given as single words and in context has been made.