СПОСОБЫ ТЕРМИНООБРАЗОВАНИЯ В СФЕРЕ МЕСТНОГО САМОУПРАВЛЕНИЯ НА ЯКУТСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ

Abstract

This article discusses the term-forming affixes of the Yakut language. The focus is made on the Yakut ways of forming the terminological units that build the legislative framework for the local governing system. 3 legislative acts of local government (1997, 2002, 2004), translated from Russian into Yakut and published in the Appendix “Yakutskiye Vedomosti” of the republican newspaper "Yakutia" comprised the material for this study. At the initial stage of the research, a selection of terminological material was made (about 257 terms and term combinations). Then, lexical-semantic, lexico-grammatical methods were used to group the selected tokens in accordance with term-forming patterns. The obtained results enabled to demonstrate higher frequency of compound terminological units compared to one-word tokens. Another finding was higher occurrence of complex terms (with derivation affixes) as opposed to compound (syntactic-based) patterns. The research has also demonstrated that despite a considerable number of borrowed terms, the Yakut language has a real potential of purely Yakut means of word-building to create the necessary terms.