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MANSI VOCABULARY OF THE SECOND PART OF XX CENTURY IN THE MATERIALS OF THE URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY TOPONYMIC FIELD TEAM // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2018. Issue 2 (20). P. 19-28

The article is based оn the insufficiently studied field data of the vocabulary materials, collected by the Toponymic Field Team of the Ural Federal University in 1968–1971 from Upper Lozva’s and Upper Sosva’s Mansi raindeer herdsmen in the Northern Ural Mountains. Now the speakers of the Upper Lozva version of the northern Mansi dialect no longer practice raindeer herdsmanship, and the number of such speakers is continuously decreasing. Therefore, it becomes especially important to pay attention to the lexical data reflecting the state of the northern dialects of the Mansi language of the second half of the XX century. Mansi vocabulary presented in the field materials of expeditions covers almost all the conceptual sphere. A reflection of the stability of the northern Mansi’s lexical stock and its development, as well Mansi’s increasing familiarity with the civilization realities. The article presents the changes in semantic volume of the Mansi lexemes, the features of lexical-derivational variation, the semantics and ways of creating the neologisms.

Keywords: Mansi vocabulary, second part of XX century, field research, new lexical materials, the development of Mansi language