Отсутствие словоизменения у нарицательных существительных на согласный: границы явления в современной русской речи

The study was based on the texts from the “Electronic corpus of Russian newspapers” (MSU project), “Integrum”, “Russian national corpus” and recordings of speech, from the beginning of the XXI century. The aim is to analyze the absence of inflexion of common nouns ending in a consonant. The relevance of the research lies in the fact that the concerned phenomenon, previously peripheral, is becoming more and more frequent. The article describes the factors supporting indeclinability of nouns ending in a consonant: multi-functionality of a word, analogy with a proper name (onim), foreign graphics, fashion factor; as well as new categories of nouns ending in a consonant, which are used without inflexion. The analysis shows that in certain fields of the modern Russian language, deep mechanisms of traditional inflexion compete with analytical tendencies. The facts of grammatical variation of new foreign nouns prove it. The study was carried out in the framework of dynamic language description method.