Gender Characteristics of Kinship-Based Personal Names in Different System Languages

Abstract

The term of kinship is of great interest to linguists for a number of reasons. First of all, the units of a given semantic field, especially its nuclear part, i.e. words denoting persons related by direct (blood) kinship belong to the core of the lexical system of any language. The article gives a classification of this group of lexical units on the basis of a number of features: the degree of relationship (direct, or consanguinity), the degree of relationship, i.e. chronological remoteness of the designated person from homo loquens in perspective and retrospective plans; given enough a detailed description of language tools that serve different areas of a given semantic field in different languages.