Kovalev, A. E. KINSHIP SYSTEM VOCABULARY IN RUSSIAN FOLKLORE (a study of Kursk folk tales). Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2025;47(5):21–27. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2025.1196


Russian language. Languages of the peoples of Russia

KINSHIP SYSTEM VOCABULARY IN RUSSIAN FOLKLORE (a study of Kursk folk tales)

Kovalev
A. E. 		Kursk State University
Keywords:
linguo-folkloristics
folklore semantics
Kursk folk tale
kinship terms
in-law relationship terms
unre-lated relationship terms		 Summary: The article is aimed at describing the kinship system vocabulary group represented in Kursk folklore tales based on lexicographic complexes for Kursk folk tales recorded by A. N. Afanasyev and F. Belkin, as well as stu- dents and teachers of Kursk State Pedagogical Institute in the 1940s and in 1980. The article provides a classification of kinship terminology, accompanied by a quantitative and semantic analysis of the selected groups and a description of their boundaries and composition. The paper analyzes family relationships commonly mentioned in folklore, their rep- resentation in the text by specific lexemes with a description of the features of their compatibility. The relevance of the research is in the description of the folklore linguistic picture of the world – a significant concept of modern linguistic folklore studies. The novelty of the research lies in an attempt to describe the lexical level of Kursk folk tales using new regional texts that have not been studied before. The study demonstrates that the most common models in Kursk folk tales are in-law relationships represented by a husband – wife pair, as well as blood relations represented by parent –child and brother – sister pairs, with lexemes naming members of these relationships being the most frequent ones.



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