THE SYSTEM OF TERMS OF MARITAL KINSHIP IN RUSSIAN, TURKISH AND CHINESE: STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS

Abstract

The article studies a problem of identifying nationally specific composition and structural-semantic organization of the system of kinship names in languages with different grammatical structures: isolating (Chinese), agglutinative (Turkish) and inflectional (Russian). The purpose of the article is to determine in each language structural features of nouns with the meaning of marital kinship and to identify both common and nationally specific semantic features underlying the nomination. Signs forming the basis for the nomination of linguistic units which belong to this denotative-ideographic group are identified by means of studying the lexemes composing the terminology of marital kinship in Russian, Turkish and Chinese languages. Structural features of nouns with the meaning of marital kinship as well as common and nationally specific semantic features underlying the nomination are determined in every language under consideration.