Oriental Studies (Dec 2020)
Differential and Integrating Features of the Lexeme ola / ala in Turkic Languages: a Case Study of the Uzbek and Karachay-Balkar Languages
Abstract
Introduction. The article provides a comprehensive study of free and lexicalized phrases, idioms of phraseological type, paired-repeated and complex constructions formed using the indicator designating variegated color, the term-forming onomastic component of the word ola / ala — ‘variegated’; ‘spotted’, ‘pockmarked’; ‘piebald’ (about animal coat colors); ‘multicolor stripped’, ‘striped’; ‘multicolored’ — participating in the categorization of mixed segments of the linguo-color space. It identifies certain distinctive and integrating features thereof in terms of different language levels and lexicographic interpretation. Goals. The work seeks to examine combinations of the attributive component ola / ala with denotative nouns and non-semantic components in descriptive phrases, expressing (depending on respective contextual environments) both an adverbial feature and words referred to as ‘transitional’. Materials and Methods. The work analyzes materials of the Uzbek and Karachay-Balkar languages. To identify the differential and integrating features of the lexeme ola / ala, the paper analyzes the lexical-semantic, lexical-grammatical, word-formation properties of secondary nomination syntactic units formed as a result of selective combination with some inventory units of morphology, their functional and stylistic features in terms of stylistic structures of examined texts. The main research methods are descriptive and comparative ones, as well as that of contextual analysis. Results. The insight into issues related to the formation and development of the lexicalsemantic structure of paired-repeated constructions formed according to the full repetition model used in the common nominative sense reveals that the repeated component — which is a phonetically modified version of the reference word — only partially affects the formation of the semantic content of ‘doubled names’, strengthening their semantic structure to a certain extent.
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