O. K. Mzhelskaya
Omsk Humanitarian Academy, Omsk, Russian Federation
Abstract:
Research Problem. Nomination questions are still among the most popular ones and a large number ofscientific papers are devoted to their study. However, the problem of semantic word formation, being the key one when studying the processes of nomination, does not receive a broad reporting in the scientific literature. Hence it is an integral part of diachroneity intextology. Research hypothesis. It is obvious in linguistics that toponyms as well as other proper names can be considered as a prominent reference point in text analysis. The research hypothesis is whether proper names can transfer to the category of words combining the nominative function with the connotative one or not.
Full description of the sample. Onomastic derivatives are the empirical material of the study. Currently, it is possible to break up the collected empirical material into four groups.
Features of Research Methodology. The study was conducted on the material of the modern Russian language using English to highlight some necessary specific features. It was performed in a diachrinic aspect, taking into account the existence and interaction of word-formation units within one time sample and the linguistic description method was adopted as the main one. Analyzed linguistic facts survey, generalization of theoretical studies concerning the issues of modern derivation, a comparative examination of the names of persons created using various methods of word production, helped to identify the specifics of their formation and scope of use, to classify the linguistic material taking into account structural and semantic features.
Brief description of results. It is also possible to extend the methodology of word-formation analysis to units originated as a result of semantic derivation i.e. by means of metaphor, metonymy, conversion, contraction and expansion of the concept. If different lexemes could be organized in separate dictionary entries, it eliminated errors in the distinction between polysemy and homonymy.
Main conclusion, findings,significance of the study. Many new nominationsi.e. compound names of a person show a tendency to enterthe commonly used vocabulary of the language and are already fixed in explanatory dictionaries as neutral lexemes. There is a great potential in the word-formation system of the Russian language.
Keywords:
text analysis, methods of word formation, semantic word formation, derivatives, appellation, proper names, etymology.
Paper submitted:
June 12, 2020
For citation:
Mzhelskaya O. K. (2020). Proper names derivatives as a diachronic aspect of textology. The Science of Person: Humanitarian Researches, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 44–48. DOI: 10.17238/issn1998-5320.2020.14.2.7
