The Issue of Declension of Well-known Urban Names Finished with Consonants or -a in the Function of Apposition.

Abstract

The questions of declining of primordial and borrowed nouns in the Russian language in general and city names, in particular, have been attracting the attention of researchers for a long time because the Russian language is inflectional and synthetic by its classification status, consequently any noun must be declined. Well-known Russian-language names of cities finished with consonants or -a in the function of apposition take the form of a generalizing word. The exception to the rule is military and topographers’ speech, for which the accuracy of the settlement name is the highest in case of using the form of the nominative case. However, there are cases when the well-known Russian city names finished with consonants and -a are not declined in the apposition function. The article deals with studying the usual conditions of declension and non-declension of well-known city names finished with consonants and -a in the apposition function in the modern Russian language and explaining the reasons for this inclining tendency existence. The absence of such studies in modern Russian orthology justifies the study relevance. The names of regional and some district centers of Ukraine were chosen as examples. The study was based on contexts in which these names were used in the apposition function. The contexts were found using the search engines of the National Corpus of the Russian Language and GOOGLE. The article justifies that the city names used in the apposition function are inclined and are not, respectively, communicative informality and formality, whose necessity is the reason for such usage.

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А. И. Попова

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А. И. Попова (2018). The Issue of Declension of Well-known Urban Names Finished with Consonants or -a in the Function of Apposition.. Науковий вісник Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету імені Івана Франка. Серія: Філологічні науки (мовознавство), 10(), 113-116. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-521783