LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF DEMONYMS IN PARAGUAYAN AND URUGUAYAN SPANISH

The present article analyses demonyms in Paraguayan and Uruguayan Spanish in a close correlation with a developing discipline that is linguistic geography. Denominative adjectives, also called demonyms, when they obtain the meaning of a noun, are directly connected with toponymy. Toponymy often refl...

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Main Author: M Radovich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2016-12-01
Series:Russian Language Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/russian-language-studies/article/view/13486
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description The present article analyses demonyms in Paraguayan and Uruguayan Spanish in a close correlation with a developing discipline that is linguistic geography. Denominative adjectives, also called demonyms, when they obtain the meaning of a noun, are directly connected with toponymy. Toponymy often reflects geographical, historical and cultural features of places it denominates and has a significant rolein lexicology of any language. Besides giving a detailed descriptions of the notions of toponymy and demonyms, the author also pays special attention on the formation of demonyms via suffixation and enumerates the most productive suffixes, as well as the rare ones. Moreover, the present article offers the suffixation analysis in two South American countries - Paraguay and Uruguay, showing that “-eño” appears to be the most productive suffix in Paraguay, whilst “-ense” is the most frequent one in the Uruguayan system of demonyms.
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spelling doaj.art-405da0a1bd6146b287652fcb12ef25f02022-12-21T19:10:36ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Russian Language Studies2618-81632618-81712016-12-010110811813485LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF DEMONYMS IN PARAGUAYAN AND URUGUAYAN SPANISHM Radovich0Российский университет дружбы народовThe present article analyses demonyms in Paraguayan and Uruguayan Spanish in a close correlation with a developing discipline that is linguistic geography. Denominative adjectives, also called demonyms, when they obtain the meaning of a noun, are directly connected with toponymy. Toponymy often reflects geographical, historical and cultural features of places it denominates and has a significant rolein lexicology of any language. Besides giving a detailed descriptions of the notions of toponymy and demonyms, the author also pays special attention on the formation of demonyms via suffixation and enumerates the most productive suffixes, as well as the rare ones. Moreover, the present article offers the suffixation analysis in two South American countries - Paraguay and Uruguay, showing that “-eño” appears to be the most productive suffix in Paraguay, whilst “-ense” is the most frequent one in the Uruguayan system of demonyms.http://journals.rudn.ru/russian-language-studies/article/view/13486катойконимыиспанский языкнациональные варианты испанского языкатопонимикапродуктивность суффиксов
spellingShingle M Radovich
LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF DEMONYMS IN PARAGUAYAN AND URUGUAYAN SPANISH
Russian Language Studies
катойконимы
испанский язык
национальные варианты испанского языка
топонимика
продуктивность суффиксов
title LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF DEMONYMS IN PARAGUAYAN AND URUGUAYAN SPANISH
title_full LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF DEMONYMS IN PARAGUAYAN AND URUGUAYAN SPANISH
title_fullStr LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF DEMONYMS IN PARAGUAYAN AND URUGUAYAN SPANISH
title_full_unstemmed LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF DEMONYMS IN PARAGUAYAN AND URUGUAYAN SPANISH
title_short LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF DEMONYMS IN PARAGUAYAN AND URUGUAYAN SPANISH
title_sort linguistic analysis of demonyms in paraguayan and uruguayan spanish
topic катойконимы
испанский язык
национальные варианты испанского языка
топонимика
продуктивность суффиксов
url http://journals.rudn.ru/russian-language-studies/article/view/13486
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