Yarmashevich M.A.
UNIVERBATION AS A VARIETY OF ABBREVIATION ^{[№ 5 ' 2003]}
In this article a great attention is given to one type of contracted words formation - univerbation, which gets especially wide distribution. At our days about 50% of abbreviation formation goes according to this way, which is a result of effort keeping law or the least effort.

Yarmashevich M.A.
ABBREVIATIONAL SIGN. ^{[№ 6 ' 2002]}
The wide spread of abbreviation and the use of reduced lexical units has become the general and common tendency for many national languages; the number of shortenings in the world rapidly grows and this makes difficult take into account all the newly appearing abbreviations. For the final definition of abbreviation it is obviously necessary to correlate its attributes and properties with the attributes and properties of language sign, word and word combination, i.e. with the whole complex of modern linguistics problems; that will allow us to find out, whether the abbreviation is a full word, participating in word-formation, or it simply represents a certain specific formation.