LEXIS AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF ALAAS TOPONYMS OF THE DOGDOGINSKY NASLEG

Abstract

The article reveals results of a study of toponyms of the Alaas of the Dogdoginsky Nasleg of the Megino-Kangalassky ulus of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The study of Alaas toponyms reveals additional information about the social, political, economic, ethnographic, linguistic development and geographical features of a certain area in the region. The language of the people is gradually changing; individual words disappear or change their meaning. In the course of the study, a geographical, historical, linguistic, statistical and typological method of studying toponyms is used. The article also uses a concept of “historical and cultural landscapes”, which covers not only cultural realities, historical features of the area, but also allows the presence of facts and knowledge that have not survived to this day, but can be restored. As a result of the study, a scheme of toponyms for the names of alaas nasleg systems and their classification is compiled, lexical and semantic features of geographical names are determined.