SEMI-NEOLOGISMS IN THE POETIC LANGUAGE: On the material of the VII volume of the «Dictionary of the Language of the XX Century Russian Poetry»

The paper highlights the work on the VII volume of the «Dictionary of the Language of the XX Century Russian Poetry». The multivolume summary (Moscow, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017; by ten poets: Annensky, Akhmatova, Blok, Yesenin, Kuzmin, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Pasternak, Khlebnikov, Tsvetaeva) demonstrates lexical structure of the language of Silver Age poetry — one of the most important periods in the development of Russian literature and culture. In the article author’s neologisms often used in the poetry are analyzed. It is showed that among such words obsolete, colloquial, dialectal lexemes may be noted as the basis for creation of author’s neologisms.