THE FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC SYSTEM OF RELATED NAMES IN TURKIC LANGUAGES

Abstract

The current stage of the development of the science of Cognitive Linguistics sets the task for researchers – to re-examine these issues on the basis of modern methods, one of which is the method of studying language units as a peculiar system. In Turkic languages, the most advanced lexical-semantic group consists of names of relationship, and this article is devoted to their comparative analysis. The relevance of this article lies in the fact that it considers names of relationship in Turkology in functional-semantic aspect. The onomasiological character of study of linguistic facts is the main leading principle of Functional Linguistics which represents a new direction in Turkology. A language and its layers are represented as a whole system, including names of relationship. The functional- semantic classification of names of relationship in Turkic languages allows determination of the genetic nature of the most common meanings of names of relationship. All names of relationship are combined into one lexical-semantic field on the basis of the seme “relationship”, which is an integral and leading one in semantic structures.