2022, Volume 19, Issue 1
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Igor A. Dambuev Numeral Adjectives in Russian Toponymy: Variation and Standardization
Voprosy onomastiki, 2022, Volume 19, Issue 1, pp. 117–138 (in Russian) Received on 30 March 2021 Abstract: The paper deals with the use of adjective numerals in Russian toponymy retrieved from the State Catalogue of Geographical Names, normative legal acts, reference books of administrative-territorial divisions and topographic maps. The object of the study is toponyms with ordinal numerals that perform the function of numbering differentiation. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of standardization of toponyms with numerals. Numerous examples of variation in the spelling of toponyms with ordinal numerals have been found. Ordinal numbers in toponyms can be expressed in Arabic numerals, Roman numerals, verbal way, alphanumeric way. The following models of writing toponyms with ordinal numbers are identified: Kamenka II, Kamenka-2, Vtoraya Kamenka, Kamenka Vtoraya, Kamenka-Vtoraya, 2-ya Kamenka, Kamenka 2-ya. The article presents the results of a linguo-statistical study that showed the usage frequency for the models of writing numerals in toponyms both on a national scale and for each region separately. The State Catalogue of Geographical Names showcases that the most frequent models of writing toponyms with numerals are Kamenka 2-ya and Vtoraya Kamenka. Other models are much less common. The author substantiates the use of a particular model for writing numerals based on their representation in texts of various types, the guides for writing geographical names on maps, current spelling rules, and linguistic features of proper names. Despite the recent trend for standardization, the study results show the lack of common approaches to writing toponyms with numerals in different territorial bodies. The revealed discrepancies in the use of Roman and Arabic numerals in toponyms, the neglect for the recommended norms of writing toponyms with numerals require improving the spelling rules of writing geographical names. Keywords: toponyms, toponymy of Russia, official toponyms, ordinal numeral, spelling variation, standardization of toponyms, spelling rules, State catalogue of geographical names. Acknowledgements The article was prepared within the framework of the State assignment (project The World of Man in the Mongolian Languages: Analysis of the Means of Expressing Emotiveness, No. 121031000258-9). References Balalykina, E. A. (2008). K voprosu o proiskhozhdenii poriadkovykh chislitel’nykh v grammaticheskoi sisteme russkogo yazyka [To the Origins of Ordinal Numbers in the Grammatical System of the Russian Language]. Uchenye zapiski Kazanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Ser. Gumanitarnye nauki, 3(150), 143–152. Berezovich, E. L. (2009). Russkaia toponimiia v etnolingvisticheskom aspekte: Prostranstvo i chelovek [Russian Toponymy in Ethnolinguistic Aspect: Space and Man]. Moscow: LIBROKOM. Bozhko, E. M., Ilner, A. O., & Korneeva, L. I. (2018). Kompromissnyi podkhod k peredache urbanonimov (na primere Ekaterinburga) [A Compromise Approach to Rendering Urban Place Names: The Case of Ekaterinburg]. Voprosy onomastiki, 2(15), 223–238. https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2018.15.2.023 Dambuev, I. A. (2019). Normalizatsiia poriadka slov v toponimakh-slovosochetaniiakh [Normalization of Word Order in Toponyms-Phrases]. Nauchnyi dialog, 8, 9–24. https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2019-8-9-24 Kachalkova, Yu. A. (2018). Leksikograficheskie problemy urbanonimii: na materiale nazvanii topoob"ektov Ekaterinburga i Cheliabinska [Lexicographic Problems of Urbanonymy: Names of Topographic Objects in Ekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk]. Voprosy onomastiki, 3(15), 212–222. https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2018.15.3.038 Shcherbak, A. S., & Elibaeva, R. D. (2020). Diff erentsial’nyi modus: ego proiavlenie v toponimike [Differential Mode and its Manifestation in Toponymy]. Neofilologiia, 6(23), 448–455. Valgina, N. S. (2003). Sovremennyi russkii iazyk: sintaksis [Modern Russian Language: Syntax]. Moscow: Vysshaia shkola. Zots, I. V., & Suleymanova, O. A. (2019). Problemnye “zony” sovremennoi urbanistiki v global’nom prostranstve: transliteratsiia urbanonimov [Problem “Zones” of Modern Urbanism in the Global Space: Transliteration of Urbanonyms]. Voprosy onomastiki, 4(16), 134–150. https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2019.16.4.049 |
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