ENGLISH LOANWORDS ENDING IN -Ш(Е)Н -Ж(Е)Н IN PRESENT-DAY RUSSIAN (ON THE BASIS OF LEXICOGRAPHIC AND CORPUS DATA)

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the phonetic-graphic and grammatical adaptation of new English loanwords ending in a group of consonants untypical of Russian. The author gives an overview of neologisms of foreign origin ending in -ш(е)н and -ж(е)н which are included into the latest edition of the academic orthographic dictionary of the Russian language published in 2012. In the study, dictionary entries of these Anglicisms are compared in various lexicographic works with a special emphasis on their graphic forms and morphological peculiarities. Variation in grammatical gender and declinability can be observed for this group of words on the basis of dictionary data and corpus materials. In some cases, the lexicographic representation of English loanwords does not correspond to the recommendations of the normative academic dictionary. Differences in the frequency of graphic variants of these neologisms are analyzed on the basis of the main section and the media section of the Russian National Corpus. A quantitative study of declinable and indeclinable forms of new words found in the Corpus are carried out. Other types of information are also provided, including the first registration of each of the ten Anglicisms concerned in Russian lexicography and a short description of their semantic features. In addition, it is mentioned that some of the examined nouns of English origin can also function as indeclinable adjectives after being borrowed into the Russian language.