The article reflects on the historical and socio-linguistic processes in Ukraine that contributed to the liberalization of language norms in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This has led to the emergence of neologisms. There are factors that were shaping the linguo-cultural space in Ukraine during this period: granting Ukrainian the status of the sole state language, as the language of the titular nation of Ukraine, legislative and linguistic initiatives that supported the development of the language, globalization processes, and geopolitical changes. Abbreviative derivatives as neologisms of modern Ukrainian emerged during the process of liberalization and belong to four distinct parts of speech. Actually, speakers form adjectival derivatives. They are most frequently found in journalistic texts, as well as in conversational, literary, and academic styles. A socio-linguistic survey conducted in 2024 confirmed trends in the word formation of adjectival derivatives from abbreviative bases. Speakers add the confix (interfix + suffix) -ivs`k-. Today, the main issue in researching such neologisms is the identification, justification, and systematization of variant and invariant standard forms according to linguistic norms.