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Description
Title
Russian Bird Names: A Linguistic Analysis
Author(s)
Meredig, John S.
Issue Date
1997
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Gladney, Frank Y.
Department of Study
Slavic Languages and Literature
Discipline
Slavic Languages and Literature
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Language, Modern
Language
eng
Abstract
The dissertation is divided into 13 chapters. Chapters 1-3 provide the ethnobiological context. Chapter 4 discusses semantic classification systems of bird names, and chapters 5-11 contain individual bird name entries for each of the six semantic categories described above plus foreign borrowings. The final two chapters are a summary of the semantic data with an analysis of the relative frequencies of names in each of the categories (chapter 12), and a discussion of the morphology of Russian bird names (chapter 13). There are also three appendices: (A) a list of the birds of the USSR in taxonomic order, with folk names (if any) listed for each species; (B) a glossary of Russian folk bird names; and (C) a list of approximately 70 obscure names, i.e., those that remain unexplained in terms of their semantic motivation.
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