Russian Bird Names: A Linguistic Analysis

The dissertation is divided into 13 chapters. Chapters 1-3 provide the ethnobiological context. Chapter 4 discusses semantic classification systems of bird names, and chapters 5-11 contain individual bird name entries for each of the six semantic categories described above plus foreign borrowings. The final two chapters are a summary of the semantic data with an analysis of the relative frequencies of names in each of the categories (chapter 12), and a discussion of the morphology of Russian bird names (chapter 13). There are also three appendices: (A) a list of the birds of the USSR in taxonomic order, with folk names (if any) listed for each species; (B) a glossary of Russian folk bird names; and (C) a list of approximately 70 obscure names, i.e., those that remain unexplained in terms of their semantic motivation.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Slavic Languages and Literature

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Meredig, John S.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Gladney, Frank Y.

• Language, Modern

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9812705

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87656