New Vocabulary in the Neological Dictionaries of the 21th Century

The paper focuses on the neological reference books created at the Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The article compares the yearbooks that appeared in the new millennium with those that came out in the 20th century.

An analysis of the yearbooks of the 21st century has shown that they reflect only the neologisms of a journalistic style. Fiction was outside the scope of consideration. Despite the significant increase in the number of research material sources and the extension of the time period for analyzing sources to the entire calendar year, there are far fewer neologisms in these reference books than in the yearbooks of the twentieth century.

As a result of the refusal to continue work on the decade-long dictionary of the 2000s of the new millennium, the tradition of publishing dictionaries recording the usual new formations in the Russian language of each decade, which was initiated by N. Z. Kotelova, was interrupted.

Neological reference books, in particular decade-long dictionary, were originally conceived as supplements to explanatory dictionaries. In the new millennium, there were no neographic publications that could serve as a help for compilers of explanatory dictionaries.