Elena Berezovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 909084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Berezovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Berezovich |
| SIGNATURE | BEREZOVICH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ural Federal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1688-2808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Materials for a Comparative Dictionary of Slavic Languages
С 2024 г. в Институте славяноведения ведется работа над сравнительным идеографическим словарем славянских языков, включающим базовую лексику всех славянских языков и некоторых соседних с ними и взаимодействующих с ними языков – литовского, греческого, румынского, венгерского, албанского. Этот словарь представляет собой расширенную применительно к славянским языкам версию известного «Словаря избранных инодоевропейских синонимов» Карла Бака, изданн…
On Reconstruction of an Extra, Text Curse Situation (Based on the Materials of Kostroma Cultural and Linguistic Tradition)
The article is concerned with the study of an extra-text curse situation arranging the corresponding speech acts. The article is based on mythological texts recorded by the Toponymical expedition of the Ural University in the Kostroma region from 1975 to 2024. The article examines the components of the curse situation repeatedly appearing in the stories of dialect speakers: 1) curse effect; 2) subject; 3) object; 4) tools; 5) time; 6) place; 7) c…
Kesariny
This article introduces into scholarly circulation the previously unrecorded term kesariny ‘yuletide maskers’, documented by the Toponymic Expedition of Ural Federal University in Chukhloma District, Kostroma Oblast during its field season in 2025. The word is found in a narrow area on the Vologda-Kostroma borderland and means primarily ‘yuletide maskers’, but also ‘participants in yuletide ritual outrages’, ‘maskers at a wedding’ and ‘characters…
The Journal Voprosy onomastiki and Onomastic Studies in the Early 21st Century
This article marks the 20th anniversary of the journal Voprosy Onomastiki, based on responses to a questionnaire sent to its staff, editorial board, experts, and regular contributors. The questionnaire asked respondents to share their views on the current development of onomastic science, the journal’s role in Russian and global onomastics, and how various categories of onyms and areas of onomastic research are addressed. Respondents also comment…
Deus ex nomine
This article draws upon the material of Russian cultural and linguistic tradition and analyses one particular phenomenon. In this phenomenon, a mythological character never existed in the folk belief system, but rather was generated by a linguistic sign or a text fragment. By their nature, the names of the characters studied in this paper derive from two types of verbal signs: 1) character names formed from regular lexical units — common nouns (р…
“Tense” Sounds in Ritualism and Magic (Based on Materials of Cultural and Linguistic Tradition of Kostroma Region)
This article is devoted to studying Russian folk rituals, magic practices and beliefs, in which the sound component (namely “tense” sounds, too loud or, vice versa, too low voice, special intonation or tempo, etc.) plays a significant role; it also identifies vocabulary “serving” for these situations, features of communication acts and “tense” sound functions. Cultural and linguistic traditions of Kostroma region was selected for the research. Fi…
Implicit Markers of Old Belief in the Onomastics of Karelian Pomorye
This article draws on field materials collected by the Toponymic Expedition of Ural University, conducted in 2023–2024 in the Pomorye area of the Belomorsky District, Republic of Karelia. It examines collective nicknames such as oblivantsy (‘residents of the village of Sukhoye’) and lesovikibezmedniki (‘residents of villages and settlements in the south-eastern part of the Belomorsky region, including Endoguba, Vorenzha, Sumostrov, Pertozero, and…
The Serpent Stone Zmeevik
В статье дается этнолингвистический комментарий к cлову змеевик, под которым в минералогии понимается серпентинит - порода, состоящая преимущественно из минерала серпентина. Этимологи считают, что змеевик - калька лат. serpentinus, в котором отражено визуальное сходство камня со змеиной шкурой. Авторы показывают, что змеевик органично «встроен» в среду русской лингвокультуры, и называют факторы адаптации: 1) собственно лингвистический - продуктив…
More on Reconstructing the Mythical Peoples’ Names in the Mountain Mythonymy of the Urals
The article analyzes the mountain mythonymy of the Urals. Mythonyms are names for supernatural anthropomorphic beings that guard treasures of the earth (minerals and metals) and aid (or interfere with) their discovery, extraction, and carving. This article concerns mythonyms motivated by the names of the peoples who, as legends say, were the most ancient population of the region and used to live in the mountains, pits, barrows, etc. The authors u…
Who is the East Slavic Karachun? (Word, Name, Character)
The paper explores the origin and semantics of the word karachun (korochun) having a vast specter of meanings in East Slavic languages (including Russian). It could mean ‘death’ (especially sudden and violent); serious illness’, ‘the end as a negative result, cessation, exhaustion of something’, ‘evil eye’, ‘evil spirit’; something that carries the idea of “crookedness, bentness” (‘crooked leg, stoop’ in Belarusian dialects, ‘hunched posture, cra…
The role of live material in verification of etymological hypotheses
The article discusses the problems of etymologization of words with an expressive (and often derogatory) meaning, using the example of Russian čepuxa ‘nonsense’. The previously existing versions of this word’s origin are analyzed, their vulnerable aspects are noticed. The author develops the unpopular version by A. B. Strakhov, who interpreted the word as a formation with the archaic prefix če- and the root pux-; initially, čepuxa meant, probably…
More on Reconstructing Mountain Mythonyms of the Urals
The article investigates the system of mountain mythonyms (mountain mythonymy) in the Urals. These mythonyms are names for supernatural beings (anthropomorphic or zoomorphic) which, according to folk beliefs, guard treasures of the earth (minerals and metals), facilitate or hinder their discovery, extraction and working. Russian mountain mythology is sufficiently studied by folklorists, but its linguistic aspect is barely touched upon so far. The…
From Name to Myth (Based on Russian Cultural and Literary Tradition)
This paper analyzes the cases wherein a previously unknown and unique mythological character (with his/her specific behavior, "personal" traits, appearance, origin, etc.) is generated by a cultural linguistic sign or a fragment of text. This research is based on the Russian cultural and linguistic tradition, mainly in its dialectal version (the language of Russian peasants). Its sources include data published in the late 19th-early 21st century i…
On semantic and etymological reconstruction of borrowed “cultural words”
The article analyzes an extensive etymological word family with the top word gurij, functioning in Northern Russian dialects (mainly near the White Sea). The semantic structure of the word family is considered, in which two blocks of meanings are distinguished: 1) with the semantic center ‘stone landmark’ (‘a sign in the form of a stone pyramid, indicating a camp and serving for other orientational purposes’ → ‘a pile of excrement’, ‘in divinatio…
On linguopragmatics of Russian imprecations mentioning evil forces
The article continues the authors' cycle of studies on the vocabulary of Russian imprecations. It is aimed at studying the linguistic and pragmatic features of imprecations that mention the names of evil spirits. Demonyms are the standard actors of imprecations, and imprecations in which appear are the archetype of an imprecation, as they appeal to the exemplary embodiment of the idea of evil. Despite this, imprecations with demonyms are not the …
Vocabulary for Lower Back and Lumbar Pain in Russian Dialects
A semantic-motivational and etymological analysis of two Russian dialectisms ‘utin’ and ‘chemer’ are carried out in the article, in the semantic structure of which (among others) meanings associated with diseases of various localization and etiology (the authors are mainly interested in the semantics of low back pain) are presented. The semantic organization of the corresponding etymological and derivational nests is reconstructed; nests are matc…
Vocabulary for Lower Back and Lumbar Pain in Russian Dialects
The semantic-motivational and etymological analysis of the Russian dialectal designations of lumbar and lumbar pain is presented. The material was extracted from dictionaries of Russian dialects, from unpublished card files of the Ural University toponymic expedition to the territories of the Russian North and the Upper Volga region, as well as folklore and ethnographic sources related to folk medicine. The main semantic-motivational models under…
The Interaction of Language and Culture
The written dialogue presented below focuses on the correlation between language and culture, which has a rich tradition of linguistic research. The panelists, well-known Slavic scholars, discuss two research perspectives on the issue of “language and culture” embodied in ethnolinguistics and cultural linguistics. The closeness of the two disciplines is due to their common subject of research; the difference between them, according to Russian lin…
Names of Trees in East Slavic Charms
This paper continues the series of the authors’ works on the toponymy of charms previously published in Voprosy Onomastiki. It deals with proper names of trees (dendronyms) in East Slavic spells coming from East Belarusian, East Ukrainian, West and South Russian territories where the considered folklore tradition is particularly prominent. The naming of revered trees is a fairly common cult practice that occurs through cultural semiotization of s…
Gemstone Names from the Wörter und Sachen Perspective
The article considers the history of the word orlets, one of the names of rhodonite (located mainly in the Middle Urals). The author traces the changes in the semantics of this word from its first mention in Russian lexicography at the end of the 18th century to the present day, when it gained the status of obsolescence. Specifically, the author demonstrates that the meaning of 'rhodonite' was assigned to it only by the end of the 19th century. T…
Russian “duboglot” in Charms and Dialectal Vocabulary (towards Investigation of Mytho-Poetic Motivation of Words)
The article considers the word duboglot, which functions in the Russian dialects (mainly South Russian) in the meanings of ‘strong dry cough, usually accompanied by a sore throat,’ ‘angina.’ Semantic and motivational reconstruction of this word is carried out based on its role in the text. The authors conclude that the word got into the dialect system from the folklore (mainly from the charms), where it refers to diseases related to inflammation …
The Phenomenon of Species Substitution in the Names of Minerals and Metals (A Case Study of the Names Including the Lexeme ‘Gold’)
The authors investigate the phenomenon of species substitution in official and unofficial names of stones, minerals and metals in the Russian language. Examples of species substitutions are the cases when the designation of a particular mineral (stone, metal) contains the name of a mineral or a metal of another type (class, category), e. g. the Ural emerald ‘demantoid’, the cat's gold ‘mica of golden colour’, pseudomalachite ‘water-phosphate of c…
The Name from the Wörter und Sachen Perspective
Received on 15 April 2020
Lexis of the Russian North
The article analyzes the current state of the studies on the vocabulary of the Russian North dialects. The concept of the Russian North is discussed, the Russian North dialectal zone is briefly characterized in light of its linguistic features, of the Northern Russian dialectal vocabulary size in comparison with the Southern Russian dialects, and of the fundamental importance of its study for Slavic linguistics in general. The article also presen…
Toponyms in the Charms of the Russian North. III
Статья является третьей в цикле публикаций авторов, посвященном топонимии заговоров Русского Севера. В ней рассматриваются имена собственные камней, которые встречаются в заговорных текстах Восточной Славии — в первую очередь русских и белорусских (для украинской заговорной традиции присвоение камням собственных имен не характерно). Главным мифооронимом русского и белорусского фольклора является Алатырь, известный преимущественно в духовных стиха…
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The Images of Moscow in the Mirror of the Russian and Foreign Languages. Moscow’s Geography
The authors focus on the linguistic image of the capital of Russia, Moscow, and its dwellers, as reflected in the Russian language (mainly, in its subdialects and the colloquial language). The image in question is studied referring to the data of foreign languages and dialects, mainly, Slavic (more particularly, East Slavic ones) along with the Romance, Germanic, Turkic, and Finno-Ugric languages. The linguistic image is based on the analysis of …
The Image of Moscow in the Mirror of the Russian and Foreign Languages
The article considers the reconstruction of the linguistic image of the Russian capital (Moscow) and its inhabitants (mainly in subdialects and the colloquial language). This image is studied with reference to the data of foreign languages and dialects, mainly, Slavic (especially East Slavic) languages as well as Romance and Germanic, Turkic and Finno-Ugric. The linguistic image is based on the analysis of words derived from the name of the Russi…
Toponymic Legends and Historical Facts (Legends about Robbers in the Area of Vologda and Kostroma Regions Eastern Boundary)
Материалом для статьи служат топонимические предания о разбойниках, записанные Топонимической экспедицией Уральского университета на территории восточного Вологодско-Костромского пограничья. Зонами наиболее активного распространения преданий являются Вохомский район Костромской области и Н икольский район Вологодской области. Внутри каждой крупной зоны выделяются очаги, в которых названия, включаемые в топонимические предания, представлены наибол…
Stéréotypes du « russe » et du « français »
L’article est consacré à l’étude contrastive des stéréotypes de la « francité » en russe et de la « russité » en français. On analyse les faits linguistiques dont la forme intérieure contient une indication directe de « russité » ou de « francité » : les dérivés des mots француз, Франция, галл, Париж ; en français, les dérivés des mots Russe, Cosaque (« Cosaque » → « militaire russe » → « Russe »), Moscou, vieil. Moscovite. Les locutions comprena…
On the semantic history of “multi-channel” borrowings
Once More on the Etymology of the Russian Word Mazurik ‘Cheater’ (in Light of the Cultural and Linguistic Image of Mazur in Slavic Traditions)
The article proves the hypothesis of the origin of the Russian colloquial word mazurik as deriving from the name of the Polish ethnographic group mazury ‘Mazurs’—inhabitants of Mazovia (in central and south-eastern Poland) as well as immigrants from this area to other places, mainly in the north-east. This hypothesis had previously been stated in the literature, but it had not been demonstrated rigorously. The authors show that the word mazurik i…
Toponyms in the Charms of the Russian North. I
The present paper is the fi rst one in a series of articles focusing on the origins and functioning of place names in oral or handwritten charm texts attested in the Russian North, i.e. in the Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Olonets, and Kostroma regions. The paper examines the names of water bodies (seas and rivers) present in the charms. The analysis builds on the largest corpus of materials available to the modern folklore studies. In each toponym’s des…
Toponyms in the Charms of the Russian North. II
The paper continues a series of publications studying the origins and usage of toponyms in oral and manuscript texts of charms attested in the Russian North: in the Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Olonets, and Kostroma regions. In this part, the authors focus on the names of “lands,” i.e. mountains, islands, and cities, subjecting them to an in-depth analysis. The parameters include 1) variations of a particular place name in the charms of the Russian Nort…
Les nominations secondaires des “entrailles” en langue russe
Dans la langue russe, les entrailles sont largement sollicitées pour exprimer les différents états psychiques ainsi que les émotions et les sensibilités: rire, pleur, attendrissement, excitation, satisfaction, joie, entrain, langueur, inquiétude, faculté d’empathie, repentir, regret, colère, rancune, préoccupation, peur. La notion d’homme psychique recouvre également l’intelligence, l’intuition, le pressentiment : les tripes sont ainsi investies …
Lexis of the Russian North
The article analyzes the current state of the studies on the vocabulary of the Russian North dialects. The concept of the Russian North is discussed, the Russian North dialectal zone is briefly characterized in light of its linguistic features, of the Northern Russian dialectal vocabulary size in comparison with the Southern Russian dialects, and of the fundamental importance of its study for Slavic linguistics in general. The article also presen…
Toponyms in the Charms of the Russian North. III
Статья является третьей в цикле публикаций авторов, посвященном топонимии заговоров Русского Севера. В ней рассматриваются имена собственные камней, которые встречаются в заговорных текстах Восточной Славии — в первую очередь русских и белорусских (для украинской заговорной традиции присвоение камням собственных имен не характерно). Главным мифооронимом русского и белорусского фольклора является Алатырь, известный преимущественно в духовных стиха…
Reconstructing the Image of the German World in the Language Consciousness of Arkhangelsk Pomors
The article presents an ethnolinguistic study which recreates the image of the German world through the eyes of the White Sea coast inhabitants. This image was formed over the centuries due to the intensive Russian-German contacts in the White Sea area, such as military campaigns (language traces, for example, were left by the war with Sweden during Peter the Great’s time and by foreign interventions during the Civil war) and the closest trade an…
Russian “duboglot” in Charms and Dialectal Vocabulary (towards Investigation of Mytho-Poetic Motivation of Words)
The article considers the word duboglot, which functions in the Russian dialects (mainly South Russian) in the meanings of ‘strong dry cough, usually accompanied by a sore throat,’ ‘angina.’ Semantic and motivational reconstruction of this word is carried out based on its role in the text. The authors conclude that the word got into the dialect system from the folklore (mainly from the charms), where it refers to diseases related to inflammation …
The Phenomenon of Species Substitution in the Names of Minerals and Metals (A Case Study of the Names Including the Lexeme ‘Gold’)
The authors investigate the phenomenon of species substitution in official and unofficial names of stones, minerals and metals in the Russian language. Examples of species substitutions are the cases when the designation of a particular mineral (stone, metal) contains the name of a mineral or a metal of another type (class, category), e. g. the Ural emerald ‘demantoid’, the cat's gold ‘mica of golden colour’, pseudomalachite ‘water-phosphate of c…
The Name from the Wörter und Sachen Perspective
Received on 15 April 2020
On linguopragmatics of Russian imprecations mentioning evil forces
The article continues the authors' cycle of studies on the vocabulary of Russian imprecations. It is aimed at studying the linguistic and pragmatic features of imprecations that mention the names of evil spirits. Demonyms are the standard actors of imprecations, and imprecations in which appear are the archetype of an imprecation, as they appeal to the exemplary embodiment of the idea of evil. Despite this, imprecations with demonyms are not the …
Vocabulary for Lower Back and Lumbar Pain in Russian Dialects
A semantic-motivational and etymological analysis of two Russian dialectisms ‘utin’ and ‘chemer’ are carried out in the article, in the semantic structure of which (among others) meanings associated with diseases of various localization and etiology (the authors are mainly interested in the semantics of low back pain) are presented. The semantic organization of the corresponding etymological and derivational nests is reconstructed; nests are matc…
Vocabulary for Lower Back and Lumbar Pain in Russian Dialects
The semantic-motivational and etymological analysis of the Russian dialectal designations of lumbar and lumbar pain is presented. The material was extracted from dictionaries of Russian dialects, from unpublished card files of the Ural University toponymic expedition to the territories of the Russian North and the Upper Volga region, as well as folklore and ethnographic sources related to folk medicine. The main semantic-motivational models under…
The Interaction of Language and Culture
The written dialogue presented below focuses on the correlation between language and culture, which has a rich tradition of linguistic research. The panelists, well-known Slavic scholars, discuss two research perspectives on the issue of “language and culture” embodied in ethnolinguistics and cultural linguistics. The closeness of the two disciplines is due to their common subject of research; the difference between them, according to Russian lin…
Names of Trees in East Slavic Charms
This paper continues the series of the authors’ works on the toponymy of charms previously published in Voprosy Onomastiki. It deals with proper names of trees (dendronyms) in East Slavic spells coming from East Belarusian, East Ukrainian, West and South Russian territories where the considered folklore tradition is particularly prominent. The naming of revered trees is a fairly common cult practice that occurs through cultural semiotization of s…
Gemstone Names from the Wörter und Sachen Perspective
The article considers the history of the word orlets, one of the names of rhodonite (located mainly in the Middle Urals). The author traces the changes in the semantics of this word from its first mention in Russian lexicography at the end of the 18th century to the present day, when it gained the status of obsolescence. Specifically, the author demonstrates that the meaning of 'rhodonite' was assigned to it only by the end of the 19th century. T…
On semantic and etymological reconstruction of borrowed “cultural words”
The article analyzes an extensive etymological word family with the top word gurij, functioning in Northern Russian dialects (mainly near the White Sea). The semantic structure of the word family is considered, in which two blocks of meanings are distinguished: 1) with the semantic center ‘stone landmark’ (‘a sign in the form of a stone pyramid, indicating a camp and serving for other orientational purposes’ → ‘a pile of excrement’, ‘in divinatio…
The Serpent Stone Zmeevik
В статье дается этнолингвистический комментарий к cлову змеевик, под которым в минералогии понимается серпентинит - порода, состоящая преимущественно из минерала серпентина. Этимологи считают, что змеевик - калька лат. serpentinus, в котором отражено визуальное сходство камня со змеиной шкурой. Авторы показывают, что змеевик органично «встроен» в среду русской лингвокультуры, и называют факторы адаптации: 1) собственно лингвистический - продуктив…
More on Reconstructing the Mythical Peoples’ Names in the Mountain Mythonymy of the Urals
The article analyzes the mountain mythonymy of the Urals. Mythonyms are names for supernatural anthropomorphic beings that guard treasures of the earth (minerals and metals) and aid (or interfere with) their discovery, extraction, and carving. This article concerns mythonyms motivated by the names of the peoples who, as legends say, were the most ancient population of the region and used to live in the mountains, pits, barrows, etc. The authors u…
Who is the East Slavic Karachun? (Word, Name, Character)
The paper explores the origin and semantics of the word karachun (korochun) having a vast specter of meanings in East Slavic languages (including Russian). It could mean ‘death’ (especially sudden and violent); serious illness’, ‘the end as a negative result, cessation, exhaustion of something’, ‘evil eye’, ‘evil spirit’; something that carries the idea of “crookedness, bentness” (‘crooked leg, stoop’ in Belarusian dialects, ‘hunched posture, cra…
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