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Doublet Toponyms: Reasons and Specific Character of Lexicographic Description

https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-3-83-88

Abstract

The article describes the history and function of etymologically different geographic names known in modern Russian toponymy in several forms. Reasons for the appearance of doublet toponyms are revealed. The author offers their classification and analyzes methods of their lexicographic interpretation in encyclopedic and toponymic literature where different means of differentiation of basic and additional forms of doublet toponyms are used.

About the Author

A. V. Barandeev
Moscow City Branch of the Russian Geographical Society
Russian Federation

Cand. of Sci. (Philol.), Chairman of the Toonymic Commission, 

10, bldg. 2, New Square, Moscow, 109012



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Barandeev A.V. Doublet Toponyms: Reasons and Specific Character of Lexicographic Description. Russian language at school. 2020;81(3):83-88. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-3-83-88

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