ТОПОНИМЫ В СЕВЕРНОРУССКИХ СВАДЕБНЫХ ПРИЧИТАНИЯХ
TOPONYMS IN THE WEDDING LAMENTATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN NORTH

Summary/Abstract: 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 lamentationsfunctioning on the set of toponyms: the folklore text embraces such toponyms as Saint-Petersburg, Novgorod, Vytegra,Kargopol, etc. The space of the lamentations is also hydrocentric, which can be explained by the peculiarity of the region and thesignificant role of water in wedding ceremonies. Special attention is paid to adjectives, derived from toponyms, such as крепостиновгородскии (“the fortresses of Novgorod”) or железо вытегорское (“the iron of Vytegra”). Generally, these adjectives functionas a characteristic of an object. They lose their geographic references and receive general meliorative connotations, which isdetermined by the lamentation genre itself: attributes in collocations саночки новгородские (“sleds from Novgorod”) or коврымосковские (“carpets from Moscow”) become idealizing epithets meaning “the best”, and their geographical references almost disappear.However, 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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