SEMI-NEOLOGISMS IN THE POETIC LANGUAGE REVISITED: On the VIII volume of the “Dictionary of 20th Century Russian Poetry Language”

The multivolume summary «Dictionary of 20th Century Russian Poetry Language» (Moscow, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019; 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. The paper highlights that obsolete, colloquial, dialectal lexemes may be noted as the basis forcreation of author’s neologisms.