The Word-building Category Potential in the Analysis of the Names of Persons in the Russian and Bashkir Languages

Abstract

This article aims to perform a comparative analysis of the word-building category with the person meaning in the Russian and Bashkir languages. The research was conducted on the material of Russian-Bashkir dictionaries. The structural-functional research method made it possible to determine the morphemic affixal composition of the compared languages, the types of a functional connection between the morphological components of the suffix base and the special morphological relations developed between the components under the influence of sociolinguistic factors. The results of the study showed that the development of agricultural terminology is determined primarily by internal language factors. In borrowed words from the Russian language, the Bashkir language mainly adds the affixes -сы, -се, -со, -сө (-sy, - sə, - so, - sɜː); there are also less productive suffixes: -даш, -дәш, -таш, -тәш, -ҙаш, -ҙәш (- dash, -dæsh, -tash, -tæsh, -ðash, - ðæsh). Both languages are an example of the expansion of English names that retain their form in these different languages. The results obtained are significant for language education and lexicography; they can serve as a basis for continuing research in the cognitive and functional areas.