Occasional word- and phrase-creating in Sergei Yesenin’s literary prose

The language of Sergei Yesenin’s prose is still poorly studied. article aims to analyze individual authorial formations extracted by the method continuous sampling from story Yar, short “Bobyl and Druzhok” novella At White Water. main methods analysis were descriptive, component, contextual ones. As a result study, we identified lexemes, bilexemes phraseological units. We recorded occasional names everyday objects, natural phenomena, as well people, animals body parts formed suffixation, prefixation composition. For derivation adjectives writer uses suffixation (with various suffixes, sometimes unproductive), patterns missing stages in chain), To coin verbs, Yesenin chooses mainly prefixation-suffixation prefixation-suffixation-postfixation methods. He also adds derivational morpheme an onomatopoetic word, which nature. When coining participles adverbs, traditional schemes, but takes stems dialect verbs generating His adverbs are mostly lexical occasionalisms prefixation-suffixation. particles interjections prose. A features writer’s creative manner presence so-called his works. contains units, unit’s component replaced, unit part comparative construction with completely replaced predicative broken, composition expanded, several units combined, shortened or dephraseologized. separate group concept “God” – these modified set phrases created himself. structural semantic transformed showed their functions: emotive, evaluative, transmitting additional information saving speech resources. Transforming unit, introduces clarifications, enhances expression achieves comic effect. Occasionalisms found both author’s characters’ remarks. performed literary prose, appeal poet’s lyrics give us grounds conclude that, for Yesenin, words phrasess not just means expression, integral element style on one hand, emphasizes originality language, and, other, brings it closer poetic traditions folk speech, indicates versatility talent.