Historiography of types of motivological dictionaries

The articleis devoted to the historiographical research of the types of motivological dictionariesillustrating different aspects of motivology: ontological, comparative, lexicographical,socio- and age-related, dynamic, functional, terminological. Alongside the publisheddictionaries, the dictionaries and the parts of the dictionaries presented in Candidate's andPhD dissertations were taken for the research.Historiography is taken according to the types of motivological dictionaries with dueconsideration of the dates of their compiling and publishing. The dictionary can becharacterized according to the following aspects: the object and subject of the dictionary,its purpose, its sources, the structure of the dictionary entry, the number of entries andnovelty.In the first group of motivological dictionaries we consider types of dictionaries,which explain motivological units in the view of lexicography and their characteristics:motivated and semi-motivated words, motivated paradigm, motivated blocks, the innerform of the word and its types, types of motivation, characteristics of nomination andmotivation taken together.The following dictionaries were described: The Experience of the DialectMotivological Dictionary (by O.I. Blinova), The Dialect Motivological Dictionary:Dialects of the Middle Priobie (edited by O.I. Blinova), a fragment of The Motivologicaldictionary of Narim Dialect (by V.G. Naumov), a fragment of The MotivologicalDictionary of Ornithonyms (by A.D. Adilova), The Motivological Dictionary of Jargons(by E.A. Shteingart), The Motivological Dictionary of Children's Speech (byK.V. Garganeeva), The Motivological Dictionary of Siberian Dialects (by O.I. Blinova,S.V. Sipchenko).In the second group motivological dictionaries of the units of the category wereconsidered: The Dictionary of the Inner Forms of Words (by O.I. Blinova,O.V. Zolotukhina), The Dictionary of Lexical Motivators (by V.G. Naumov), TheDictionary of Regular Formants (by N.G. Nesterova), The Frequency Dictionary (byO.I. Blinova), The Dictionary of Remotivated Lexical Units (by M.V. Kurisheva), TheDictionary of the Forms of Subjective Evaluation (by G.V. Kalitkina).In the third group explanatory and comparative dictionaries are described: bilingual:The Russian-English Dictionary of Names of Animals and Birds (by A.S. Filatova), afragment of The Russian-English Dictionary of Zoonyms (by A.V. Shevchik); andmultilingual: The Motivological and Comparative Dictionary of Ornithonyms of Russian,Ukrainian and Polish (by A.D. Adilova), The Multilingual Motivological and ComparativeDictionary of Slavonic and Turkic Languages (by A.D. Adilova).In the fourth group explanatory and functional motivological dictionaries (byO.I. Blinova, K.I. Komarova, E.V. Naumova) are described. The Polysystemic Dictionaryof Siberian Dialect (by M.A. Tolstova) brings closure to the historiographic note.In the fifth group The Motivological Dictionary of Terminology was described.In the conclusion the author reviews the historiographic description of motivologicaldictionaries. 12 motivological dictionaries were compiled and they cover all the aspects ofmotivology: lexicographical, comparative, socio- and age-related, dynamic, functional,ontological; 9 languages (Russian, English, German, French, Kazakh and others); 4 themegroups of ornithonyms, zoonyms, phytonyms and household objects, thousands of lexicalunits. The historiographic review illustrated how the lexicographical theory of wordsmotivology was developing.

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