The project of an idiolect toponymic dictionary

The review of existing toponymic dictionaries shows the diversity of their objectives and principles, including the increasing interest in idiolect onomasticons. However, the linguopersonology trend in proper name lexicography today is represented only in writer's language dictionaries and based on the data of the authors' written speech. The new Idiolect Dictionary of Toponyms of the Siberian Old-Timer has some significant differences from them. It is at the intersection of onomasticons, dialect and idiolect dictionaries, combining their features. Typologically, the Dictionary is registering, aspect, first reflecting the specific geographic nominations of an ordinary individual. It is part of the dictionary complex which presents the idiolect of a Siberian Middle Ob Old-Timer, V.P. Vershinina, born in 1909. The main source of the dictionary was texts of live colloquial speech of the dialect speaker of about 10,000 pages in volume. In forming the glossary, after the initial full explanatory dictionary of nominal vocabulary, the aim was to most broadly reflect the individual units of the lexicon which includes all kinds of toponyms relating to different kinds of geographical objects, official and unofficial names of the nuclear and peripheral zones of onyms and possessive adjectives derived from toponyms. The article describes the general structure of the Dictionary and the structure of its entries which include the head word in its basic dictionary form with its formal options; dialectal features of inflection; marks ("informal", "undeveloped", "occasional", "new", "obsolescent", "in alien speech", "in the precedent text"); interpretation of the meaning; reference information; illustrative material. In semantization of toponyms an attempt is made to reflect the ideas of geographic objects from the standpoint of an ordinary speaker. In this connection, interpretation can be both very generalized (specifying the form of the object only) and most detailed. The reference zone indicates the number of recorded uses of the toponym and, if necessary, its official name. Contexts represent spontaneous speech of the dialectal language personality and metalinguistic consciousness representations, the object of which is toponyms. Samples of entries are given. The Idiolect Dictionary of Toponyms of the Siberian Old-Timer includes about 300 entries. It gives the researcher a wide range of information on the toponymic part of the dialect speaker's lexicon, its quantitative, qualitative and functional characteristics. The dictionary materials will be useful for experts in dialectology, onomastics, cultural linguistics who deal with the problems of semantics of proper names, metalinguistic reflection in the field of onomastics, reconstruction of a native speaker's representations of the spatial organization of the world. This source can make a contribution to the study of the dialect language personality and, broader, the average native speaker in general.

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