THE LEXICON OF CONTEMPORARY WAR TIME: COMPRESSIVE PROFESSIONAL SLANG UNITS IN THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE
Authors:   Kremenchuk Anton Makarenko Humanitarian and Technological Academy, Ivko Oleksandr S. , Diachok Natalia V. ,   Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
Published: December 2024

The article seeks to reveal the concept of compressive processes implemented in the professional
slang of Ukrainian military people and volunteers. It is a conti nuati on of a series of works covering the cur- of Ukrainian military people and volunteers. It is a conti nuati on of a series of works covering the cur- of Ukrainian military people and volunteers. It is a conti nuati on of a series of works covering the cur- Ukrainian military people and volunteers. It is a conti nuati on of a series of works covering the cur- Ukrainian military people and volunteers. It is a conti nuati on of a series of works covering the cur- military people and volunteers. It is a conti nuati on of a series of works covering the cur- military people and volunteers. It is a conti nuati on of a series of works covering the cur- people and volunteers. It is a conti nuati on of a series of works covering the cur- people and volunteers. It is a conti nuati on of a series of works covering the cur- and volunteers. It is a conti nuati on of a series of works covering the cur- and volunteers. It is a conti nuati on of a series of works covering the cur- volunteers. It is a conti nuati on of a series of works covering the cur- volunteers. It is a continuation of a series of works covering the cur-
rent processes in language and speech. The main focus here is placed on abbreviation and univerbation as
the processes able to create compressed modification of nominative units – both analytical, and synthetic,
i.e., the processes belonging to internal, speech-based word formation.
The topicality of the paper lies in its focus on phenomena that gradually become the history of the
Ukrainian language and Slavic studies as a whole, including neologization and adjacent phenomena.
Тhe research aims to define the productivity of compressives as units of military discourse, on one
hand, and as the emergent linguistic material, on the other. The objectives of the study are as follows: 1)
to separate compressives from the traditional derivates; 2) to determine the criteria for distinguishing the
main compressive processes – abbreviation and univerbation; 3) to formulate the causes of the emergence
of the investigated slang; 4) to give reasoning for the study of compressives in military discourse as a pro-
spective research issue.
The main research methods include the descriptive and structural ones, as they help demonstrate
the specificity of univerbs and abbreviation as instances of speech compression. We have utilized the dis-
tributive analysis approach to determine the types of nominative units’ transformation.
Military discourse is the field of language functioning that fosters the production of neologisms
emerging as a result of different types of compression. It reflects the dynamic nature of military discourse
with its need to convey maximum amount of information within the minimum period of time, striving for
clearance, laconic forms, and rich content. Within the range of Ukrainian military lexicon under analysis,
we single out nouns (formed by means of abbreviation, univerbation, and simulation of univerbation) as well as verbs and their verb forms (which often result from univerbation). The emergence of compressive
nominations in question follows the general tendency of lexical nomination towards modifying analytical
or complex synthetic units into shorter speech segments, being a universal feature of the current state of
the Indo-European languages as a whole.