Структура та функції оказіоналізмів у романах Іена Мак’юена ‘Saturday’, ‘On Chesil Beach’ і ‘Solar’ (Formal and functional peculiarities of occasionalisms in Ian Mcewan’s novels ''Saturda'', ''On Chesil beach'', ''Solar'')

Abstract

Стаття подає аналіз словотворчих оказіоналізмів (загалом 426, в середньому 1 на 1,96 сторінки тексту), зафіксованих у трьох зрілих романах сучасного англійського письменника Іена Мак’юена. Лексичні інновації класифіковані за словотворчими способами та моделями (більше половини з яких словоскладання) із зазначенням їх функціонального навантаження (головно номінативна та прагматична функції, а також синтаксична вигода). (The article provides insights into the nature of word-building occasionalisms on the basis of which the appropriate lexical units are drawn from Ian McEwan’s three late novels with their further classification according to the ways and models of word-creation as well as their functional load. The novels are disparate in topics, settings and occasionalisms per page proportion, but on average there is one occasionalism for every other page (1:1,96). On the whole, they reveal a high degree of motivation as well as implicit predication in many of them. Due to research data, out of 426 innovations 57% are compounds proper (including multicomponent innovations), 19% are complex derivatives, 10% are occasionalisms formed by means of affixation proper and 12% are innovations coined by means of combining forms/semi-affixes, shortenings and conversion constitute a small percentage (1-2%). A peculiar feature of the occasionalisms in Ian McEwan’s mature novels is their imagery, communicative nature and syntactic compression prompted by syntactic convenience, hence the semantic, structural and functional relevance of the coinages, the latter being mainly realized in the nominative and pragmatic (expressive, evaluative, emotive) functions of theirs.