The article considers the features of the centaur words functioning in the Russian language of the late 20 - early 21 centuries. Methods of observation, description, word-formation, classification and functional-semantic analysis were used in the course of the study. Excerpts from subcorpuses of the National Corpus of the Russian Language provided the main language material. The study allowed describing graphical peculiarities of centaur words and identifying the main spheres of their functioning and trends of development in the modern Russian (graphic, word-formative and semantic). The degree of reflection and description of centaur words in the latest definition dictionaries has been investigated; the multi-aspect analysis of centaur words has given the assessment of prospects of their existence in the modern Russian language. It has been found out that Russian word formation is traditionally characterized by the formation of compound words, though the formation of centaur words is a consequence of the English language influence on the Russian language.
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