«SYUDA YA BOL’SHE... NE YEDOK?» (ABOUT THE EXPANSION OF THE IMPERATIVE YED’ ‘GO’ IN COLLOQUIAL SPEECH OF THE XXI CENTURY)

The article is devoted to the problem of spontaneous completion of defective verb paradigms using word forms rejected by the literary norm. The author draws attention to the expansion of imperative forms of the 2000s, yed’, yed’te ‘go’ and the corresponding forms of prefi xed verbs poyekhat’, priyekhat’, zayekhat’, etc., with the goal of identifying its causes. The corpus study on the Russian National Corpus using the methods of corpus, contextual, semantic, grammatical and synchronic-diachronic comparative analysis, proves the regularity of the use of the forms yed’, yed’te not so much as a function of speech characterization, but in the spoken and written speech of educated people, in neutral contexts and in various functional areas of language. The advantage of choosing these forms is the possibility of using them in negation and in grammatical constructions with a verbal imperative in indirect meanings, where the use of normative options is semantically impossible.
The author explains the reasons for the rapid spread of the variants ed, edte in speech by the presence of their prototype forms in the Old Russian language, which allows us to talk about spontaneous recursion of the norm, the possible infl uence of Ukrainianisms due to the development of migration processes and cultural exchange at the end of the 20th century, as well as the impact of Internet communication, social networks and mass media that turn the word forms in question into a fact of speech pop culture.