Keyword: «personal names»

The article is determined by the value and place of onomastic vocabulary in the language system, given the structural-semantic and functional characteristics of Olimov Russian language. Attention to the functional side of proper names has allowed to allocate proper function: nominative, identifying and differentiating.

The article aims at describing morphological peculiarities of anthroponyms used by Cornelia Maria Funke in her Inkheart trilogy. All names are classified into five groups according to their morphological structure. The article can be used by teachers of German at schools and universities, students of foreign languages and all those interested in problems of word-formation.

The article analyzes the quantitative changes of the Yakut names in the composition of the name book of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), as well as the semantic analysis of the Yakut names.

The article analyzes the names of Evenks collected on the basis of materials of Tungusologists dealing with anthroponymy. Names of people and their separate compo-nents, their origin, evolution, regularities of their functioning, geography are considered. In the center of attention is the origin of personal names, their place in the worldview of eth-nos. The factors influencing the naming of Evenks are determined. The study uses a de-scriptive method. The results can be applied to further study and theoretical understanding of Evenki naming.