Фольклорна ономастика: до проблеми статусу
Folklore onomastics: the problem of its status

Summary/Abstract: The study of folklore onyms has a history lasting over a century and a half. Among linguistic disciplines they are the object of study of at least linguistic folklore studies, ethnolinguistics and onomastics. However, scholars from other fields do not always realise the distinctiveness of the object of study in each of them. The aim of the article is to describe the main tasks of onomastic studies in folklore. The object of study in folklore onomastics, unlike in other sciences, has to be typological regularities of organization, structuring and existence of the system of proper names in oral folk¬lore as an organic, specific part of national onym system and its ability to provide evidence about main tendencies and regularities of development and functioning of national system of naming.

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