Evdokiya N. Afanaseva, Vladimir D. Monastyrev

Turkic Languages, Jahrgang 27 (2023), Ausgabe 2, Seite 286 - 299

The paper describes the general concept, basic principles, and prospects of a new project in Yakut lexicography, a Mongolian-Russian-Yakut dictionary, which is a collaborative effort between the Institute for Humanities Research and Problems of Indigenous Peoples of the North, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Language and Literature, Mongolian Academy of Sciences. Although modern linguistics has shown considerable interest in this problem, systematic studies of Yakut-Mongolian language contacts are still lacking. The present project is a first step by Yakut lexicographers in comparative lexicographic studies of Yakut and Mongolian, and is meant to lead to more fundamental and applied investigations. The purpose of the project is to reveal common areas of communication in the Yakut and Mongolian lexicons and systematize lexical and semantic parallels. So far, we have defined the principles for word selection and the structure of dictionary entries that will include modern Mongolian and Old Script variants with transcriptions. Special attention is paid to identifying cross-linguistic parallels. Mongolian is translated into Yakut through Russian. This research project is aimed at scholars studying Turkic-Mongolic language contacts.

Keywords: Yakut, Mongolian, dictionary, Turkic lexicography, phraseology

Svetlana M. Prokopieva, Svetlana M. Prokopieva, Vladimir D. Monastyrev, Orynay S. Zhubaeva, Marat A. Ryskulov

Turkic Languages, Jahrgang 25 (2021), Ausgabe 2, Seite 162 - 172

This paper deals with phraseological units containing a bird-name component. Although such phraseological units have been studied before, they have not yet been given adequate attention in Yakut and Kazakh linguistics. Using a comparative method, we have identified universal and culture-specific features of such phraseological units.

Vladimir D. Monastyrev, Nadezhda N. Vasilieva, Ija V. Ammosova

Turkic Languages, Jahrgang 23 (2019), Ausgabe 2, Seite 250 - 264

In 2018, the long hard long work of creating the multivolume Sakha tïlïn bïhaarïïlaakh tïld’ïta. Tolkovyj slovar’ jakutskogo jazyka [Explanatory dictionary of the Yakut lan¬guage], in 15 volumes and containing approximately 80,000 words and phraseologisms, was completed. The dictionary represents a corpus of the Yakut national vocabulary. It provides the lexico-semantic structure of words with detailed definitions illustrated by rich material. Undoubtedly, the dictionary is a great achievement of both Yakut and Turkic lexicography in general.