Топонимы Резии и выражение пространственных отношений в резьянском языке

The paper offers an interpretation of some Rezyan toponyms. The mountainous landscape of Rezya has determined the importance of the spatial landmarks ‘top — bottom’, ‘west — east’. The Rezyan language widely uses compound prepositions to express these relations, often in combination with adverbial particles (cf. ‘there-in’). An archaic feature is the use of idioms for the orientation marks ‘right’, ‘left’.