Klimkova, L. A. CATEGORY OF GENDER IN UNOFFICIAL ANTHROPONOMY. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2021;43(1):8–14. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2021.562


Linguistics

CATEGORY OF GENDER IN UNOFFICIAL ANTHROPONOMY

Klimkova
L. A. 		Arzamas Branch of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
Keywords:
microanthroponymy
nickname
grammatical gender
natural gender
animacy
inanimacy
appellativity
lexico-semantic derivation
anthroponymization
connotation		 Summary: The author refers to the classical works of Russian linguists stating that noun gender is a non-variable lexico-grammatical category, and then focuses on its realization in individual personal nicknames (primarily with the fi nal -a/-ya) as part of microanthroponymic sphere, specifi cally through the correlation of such lexico-grammatical classes as appellativity–propriality and animacy–inanimacy. The nicknames used in the Oka-Volga-Sura interfl uve area of the Nizhny Novgorod region are studied using the descriptive, structural and semantic, componential, comparative and other interpretational methods to demonstrate the fact that this category has diff erent semantics compared to the sphere of common nouns. Here, due to actualized identifi cation, the discrepancy in the grammatical markers of noun gender and natural gender is a means of characterization, creation and expression of increased connotation. The author proposes a detailed classifi cation of nicknames according to their gender and draws conclusions about the lexico-semantic character and manifestation of gender in nicknames, about the productivity of lexico-semantic derivation among them (anthroponymization and transonymization) accompanied by associativity and transformation (alongside with morphological derivation), as well as about the applicability of the observations and generalizations contained in classical linguistic works to the material under analysis. The proposed classifi cation of nicknames according to their gender qualifi cation could be taken into account in the lexicographic description of unoffi cial anthroponyms.



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