Neoderivatives with the Formant -ing in the Language of Modern Russian Media

In modern media discourse, nouns ending in -ing are actively used. Yet, they are not borrowings, they are new derivative words. The subject of research in this article is non-derivatives formed from Russian motivational foundations. The authors pay attention to the status of the formant ing in the grammatical system of the Russian language. The aim of the study is to identify the word-forming potential, role and functions of the morpheme -ing, to show the process of integration of a foreign-language suffix into the Russian word-formation system. The considered derivatives are a product of word formation on Russian soil. The motivating basis of ing neoderivatives are usually nouns of specific semantics (izbing — from izba, boloting — from boloto = swamp, shashlyching — from shashlyk), less often verbs and deverbatives (rubing — from rubit = chop wood; propoling — from propolka = weeding). Derivative nouns are formed according to the active word-formation model “noun + -ing”. They have a processual-event meaning, which is introduced by the word-formation affix -ing. This morpheme, unlike the suffixes “-a-niye” and “-yeniye”, which participate in the formation of verbal nouns, can be attached to the motivating stems of nouns. Neologisms with the formant -ing perform a nominative function, but they have a bright expressiveness, being usually individually authored. Word-creation with the formant -ing is widely used in ironic poetry. The study demonstrates the growing derivational potential of the morpheme -ing based on the material of Russian mass media and the Internet, and shows a grammatical renewal of the Russian lexicon.