Nailya Sanyarova

The article considers the issue of the place of reduplication in the system of repetition types, belonging to different levels of the modern Russian language: phonetic, word building, lexical, morphological, and syntactic. It is noted that reduplication refers primarily to the word-building level of the language, since with its help new language units are formed on the basis of repetitions. The author touches upon a question of repetition and reduplication importance in the language and their diverse functions in particular.

The article deals with compound word spelling, including reduplicate formations. It is noted that significant changes have occurred in compound word spelling recently. Along with the traditional «hyphen», such signs as a space, exclamation point, comma and auxiliary parts of speech began to be used in reduplicate spelling in accordance with their punctuation and spelling shape, as well as graphic marking. The appearance of compound words written with breaking the traditional norms of spelling is associated with the expansion of hyphen functions, as well as with intentions of authors seeking to demonstrate expression and specify semantics by means of a graphical shift. New formations are occasional words, the originality of which is largely determined by the practice of Internet discourse.