Церковные названия внутрипоселенческих объектов в топонимной системе Беларуси: территориальная дифференциация

Abstract

Improvement of science is accompanied by transformation of its conceptual framework. Intra‑settlement names, for terminological definition of which conlacationonimy is proposed, become the object of research in the first decades of the 21st century. Church names, which implement value‑semantic and culturally marked information, bear spiritual culture of the Belarusian people. Different periods in the development of Belarus’s conlocationonymia are characterized by different shares of participation of church vocabulary in each of the types of intra‑settlement names, including linear, territorial and point names. Despite the low degree of representation of church names in national urbanonymicons and vikonymicons (from 0.03% to 0.21%), there are three local zones of their distribution: western, central, and eastern, which differ not only in frequency of use, but also in terms of their meanings. This proves geographic, mental and linguistic separateness of the studied range. As a result, the western and the eastern zones act as two conlocationonymic spaces, maximally different from each other at the beginning of the 21st century. It is illustrative that among the names of linear objects of horticultural associations such units are not recorded at all. The research materials may be used in scientific research while working on theoretical problems of toponymical regional studies and conceptualization of the phenomenon of conlocationonimy, as well as in understanding and describing this layer of onymic vocabulary from a spiritual point of view.