Krivoshchapova, J. A. TOPONYMS IN THE WEDDING LAMENTATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN NORTH // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2018. No 6 (175). DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2018.216


Linguistics

TOPONYMS IN THE WEDDING LAMENTATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN NORTH

Krivoshchapova
J. A. 		Ural Federal University
Keywords:
Russian northern wedding lamentations
onomastics
toponyms
semantic and word-forming derivation
text semantics of proper names		 Summary: The article refers to toponyms and idioms with toponymic components present in the wedding lamentations of the Russian North. The author characterizes the wedding lamentations toponymic space and highlights the influence of the northern area of the lamentations functioning to the set of the toponyms: the folklore text embraces such toponyms as Saint-Petersburg, Novgorod, Vytegra, Kargopol, and so on. The space of the lamentations is also hydrocentric, which can be explained by the peculiarity of the region and the significant role of water in the wedding ceremony. Special attention is paid to adjectives, derived from toponyms, such as крепости новгородскии or железо вытегорское . Generally, these adjectives function as a characteristic of an object. They lose their geographic references and receive general meliorative connotations, which is determined by the lamentation genre itself: the attributes in саночки новгородские or ковры московские become idealizing epithets meaning “the best”, and their geographical references almost disappear. But the author considers it important to analyze the semantics of toponymic derivatives in lamentations more carefully, as some of them “remember” their geographic origins.



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