The lexico-semantic group “Residential buildings” in the Shor language against the background of common Turkic vocabulary

In  the  humanitarian  space  of  modern  civilization,  much  attention  is  paid  to  the phenomena of languages and culture of small ethnic groups and the problem of the revitalization of endangered languages. Currently, the linguistic systems of small numbered  peoples  are  being  studied  and  research  results  are  being  recorded. The lexical  fund  of  the  language  most  vividly  reflects  the  culture  of  an  ethnic  group.  A  promising  area  of  vocabulary  research  is  the  thematic  presentation  of  lexicon units. Words denoting residential buildings form an important part of the vocabulary of the language, they are the keepers of information about the development of an ethnic group in the process of space exploration. Lexical units that are part of the general stock of the Shor language retain signs of dialects and indicate inter-ethnic ties. The purpose of this work is to describe the lexico-semantic group as a part of the Shor lexicon. The research materials are original Shor texts, data from dictionaries, grammatical  and  etymological  descriptions.  The  basic  research  method  uses  the provisions of comparative historical linguistics, as well as the method of thematic description  of  vocabulary. As  a  result,  the  current  composition  of  the  lexical  and semantic division is outlined, the historical background on which the Shor lexemes function  is  presented,  the  connection  of  the  Shor  language,  its  dialects  with  the Turkic languages of different classification groups is shown. The integrated common Turkic vocabulary in the Shor language reflects the ancient genetic kinship of the Turkic ethnic groups. The lexicological description of the units of the Shor language reveals  its  areal  features.  The  fixation  of  thematic  vocabulary  and  its  contexts  is of  practical  importance,  it  helps  to  preserve  authentic  linguistic  units  necessary for  the  process  of  preserving  the  language  and  optimizing  its  use  in  the  oral  and written speech of native speakers. In the future, the considered lexical and semantic group “Residential buildings”, being an integral part of the thematic field “Human habitable space”, makes it possible to describe the names of settlement types among the Shors. The resulting segment of the lexicon will be included in the thesaurus of the Shor language as an integral part of it.

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