Word formation in Russian is the formation of derivatives (new words) from cognate words. What happens as a result of this process? Then a formal-semantic relationship arises between the neoplasm and its derivative.
Consider the structure of this phenomenon. Word formation in the Russian language most often follows a morphological path. It can be affixation, which includes the prefix way of derivative derivation. Such verbal pairs can serve as examples: payment - overpayment, tropics - subtropics, sweet - unsweetened. The morphological method is sometimes based on a suffix word formation. Here are examples: love is love, mystery is mysterious, luxury is luxury.
Morphological word formation in Russian can combine both of the above options: taste - tasteless, homestead - homestead, work - unemployment, sewing - stitching. Here, a suffix-prefixal way of the emergence of derivatives is observed.
Today, such a way of the appearance of words as zero suffixation is singled out separately: quiet - quiet, blue - blue, tell - story.
Sometimes, word formation in the Russian language has the form of a postfixal method. In this case, the words are obtained using particles. They are added after the whole word, for example, in the verbs with "sya": bathed - bathed, looked - looked, kissed - kissed. Other particles may also participate in this process: why - why, when, ever.
One cannot but mention such word-formation methods in the Russian language as the addition and merging of words in a word combination. The following derivatives can serve as examples of addition: forest-steppe, tank farm, vegetable store.
The lexico-syntactic method is close to it, in which words are combined from a phrase without the participation of any connecting vowels and without changing the shapes of the words being added. Here, as examples, it is appropriate to present such derivatives: evergreen, instant, intractable.
Abbreviation is the birth of new words derived from the first letters of names. Such, for example, are a university, a hydroelectric power station, a quality department, and a New Economic Policy. Excessive tendency to create new terimov in this way leads to the emergence of rather dissonant abbreviations. Jokers try to "solve" them in their own way. Sometimes this can be quite witty and funny, especially when such wits are taken up that the KVN teams are full of them. Here, by the way, is another abbreviation that has taken root in the Russian language quite firmly. It even has its own derivatives, for example, the adjective "kaveenovsky".
Word formation of the Russian language includes such a method as the transition of words from one part of speech to another - substantiation. For example: bathroom, dining room, worker, military. These words have turned into nouns from adjectives. Can go into nouns and participles. Examples of this method of education are the words commander, students, living room, ice cream. And the participle “brilliant” in the context of the noun “abilities” is defined as an adjective, just as “refined” in combination with the word taste.
Thus, the word formation of the Russian language is extremely diverse, has many ways and is in constant development.