Title of the article:

FOREIGN LANGUAGES` TOPONYMIC BORROWINGS OF THE BAIKAL REGION: ON THE ISSUE OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF THE REGION

Author(s):

Anna M. Litovkina

Information about the author/authors

Anna M. Litovkina — PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Baikal State University, 11 Lenin St., building 3, 664003 Irkutsk, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1863-7029. E-mail: Anna220381@yandex.ru

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2020

Volume

Vol. 57

Pages

pp. 201-209

Received

May 20, 2019

Date of publication

September 28, 2020

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2020-57-201-209

Index UDK

801.311(571.53)

Index BBK

81 + 81.411.2-4

Abstract

The present study of the topography of the Baikal Siberia includes components of both synchronous and diachronic lexical analysis. Toponyms represented in modern cartography and belonging in the toponymic system of the Russian language may be established according to historical models. The history of each of them is individual. The study deals with foreign-language toponymic nominations of the Baikal Siberia, displaying toponymic strata that have developed in given territory. Frequency of the use of one or another basis and toponymical formant allows revealing the word formative meanings of toponyms related to certain word formative types. The toponymical bases and topo-formants under study demonstrate the productivity of derivational types, as indicated by the repeatability of the forms and characteristics in the structure of foreign names borrowed from the Russian language and adapted by its system. Administrative-political zoning of the Baikal Siberia is also characterized by linguistic features of the toponymical strata formed here. The paper analyzes existing substrate names in the territory of the Baikal region, according to the area of settlement of the indigenous population. The author cites data on the history of ethnic settlement in the territory of the Irkutsk region, contributing to a clearer understanding of specifics of the existence of numerous substrate names of the area. Statistical data introduced by the author of the study of regional toponymicon characterize the ratio of Slavic and foreign-language geographical names by their quantitative characteristics and allow determining stratigraphic features of the existing toponymic space of the Baikal region, which has been developping by Russian people for four hundred years.

Keywords

ethnos, toponym, toponymical foreign vocabulary, regional toponymicon, toponymic space, stratigraphy, substrate, toponymical basis, toponymical formant, formative meaning.

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