REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN On the rights of the manuscript ABSTRACT of the dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy THE LEXICOLOGY OF THE SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF OGHUZ TURKS Speciality: 5710.01 – Turkish languages Field of science: philology – linguistics Applicant: Samira Jamal Mammadova Baku –2021 The work was performed at the department of the “Turkology” at Baku Slavic University. Scientific supervisor: prof. Doctor of Philological Sciences Mehman Musa Musayev Official opponents: prof. Doctor of Philological Sciences Ismayil Babash Kazimov prof. Doctor of Philological Sciences Yadigar Vali Aliyev Doctor of Philosophy on Philology Kamala Andahat Alekbarova Dissertation council – ED 1.06 of the Supreme Attestation Commission under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan operating at the Institute of Linguistics named after Nasimi, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. 2 INTRODUCTION The actuality and the usage rate of the research work. The research of the lexicology of the spiritual culture is the main method for study the living manner, the mythological thought, the system of the religious belief, the world outlook, the spiritual world, and the ethnographic features of any nation completely. The history of the lexicology of the spiritual culture is related to the history of the nation directly. Because these lexical units reflect the custom and traditions, the living manner and etc. of the nation besides with connecting to the process of the activity of peoples in different social-economical formations, different agricultural implements. From this reason, the research of lexicology of the spiritual culture is necessary for the language history and these lexical units, almost, reflect the most ancient periodical language features of the nation proving the antiquity of the language. It plays an important role in the enriching of the lexicology. The study of the lexicology of the Turkic languages including to Oghuz group with related and the other languages comparatively creates the condition for emerging the phonomorphological, lexical-semantic features of the language system. Though the lexicology of the spiritual culture arranging the great part of the culture of the Turkic languages including to Oghuz group attracted the attention of some ethnographers, linguists, it stayed apart from the linguistic researches systematically. Besides with proving the antiquity, affluence, the related geographical area of the spiritual culture of the Turkic languages including to Oghuz group, the semasiological research of the lexical units embracing the religious belief, mythological thought, the domestic and sociological attitudes of the nation itself gives the affluent facts for the dialectological, historical-comparative and lingo typological researches. Throughout the history, the lexicology of the spiritual culture of the Turkic nations has enriched more in the result of both the interlingual and extralinguistic influence. Sometimes, certain part of the lexicology of the spiritual culture has been forgotten after becoming archaic as the result of extralinguistic influences in the certain level of the history. As the result of the sequenced processes, 3 the lexicology of the spiritual culture reflects the custom and traditions, the national thought, the outlook to the life, mentality of the nation clearly. The collecting of the lexicology of the spiritual culture of the Turkic languages including to Oghuz group, researching systematically, the emerging of the lexical-semantic features, the defining of the spreading areal gives the opportunity to the explanation of some ethnolinguistic problems. But the lexicology of the spiritual culture of the Turkic languages including to Oghuz group hasn’t been researched from the linguistic feature in the complex form, the lexical-thematic classification, the etymological analysis, the sources of creation hasn’t been researched systematically. All of them are conditioned the actuality of the work. The object and subject of the research. The lexicology of the spiritual culture of these languages arranges the object of the research. And the ancient and modern Oghuz group Turkic languages surround the subject of the research. The aim and the tasks of the research. The research of the lexicology of spiritual culture which reflecting the religious, mythological thought, the belief system, the world view, the daily life manner-living of the Turkic nation itself in a long period from the ancient time to the modern century is the basic factor for the study of those languages. The aim of the work is the attracting of the lexicology of spiritual culture of those languages to the etymological, lexical-semantic analysis on certain thematic groups, the emerging of the sources of creation, the researching of similar and different signs, as well the equivalents systematically. The performing of the following duties was considered for achieving to this aim: - To research the issues of the exploration of ethnolinguistic completely, but the issues of the lexicology of the spiritual culture separately in the turkological linguistics; - To attract the lexicology of the spiritual culture of the Turkic languages including to Oghuz group in the comparative- historical aspect systematically according to their components; - Basing to the etymological analysis, to specify the historical-semasiological evolution of the lexicology of spiritual 4 culture; - To emerge the levels of the formation and period of the development of the lexicology of spiritual culture; - To define the signs of lexicology of the spiritual culture of the Turkic languages including to Oghuz group in the language of the ancient written monuments, as well in the dialects of the modern Turkic languages; - According to lexical-semantic approach, to analyse the lexicology of spiritual culture of the Turkic languages including to Oghuz group by grouping them for the thematic features; - To attract the influence of the extralinguistic and sociolinguistic factors to the lexicology of the spiritual culture, the sources of the creation to the analysis; The methods of the research. The research was realized in the synchronic and diachronic aspects, the comparative-historical and descriptive methods were used in this time. The basic provisions giving to the defense. As being the result of the research work, the provisions introducing to the defense are the followings: - The linguistic research of the lexicology of spiritual culture of the Turkic languages including to Oghuz group complexly hasn’t been realized by neither the local nor the foreign turkologists to the modern period. Almost, considering this, the research of lexicology of the spiritual culture of the Turkic languages including to Oghuz group from the diachronic and synchronic, comparative-historical, descriptive aspect, as well in certain thematic, lexical-semantic form gives the opportunity to the researching of the opposite attitudes of these languages with the neighbouring languages, to the defining of the common language features, the cultural heritage and the world view of the Turkic languages. - The lexical units carrying the religious character are differed with the majority of the borrowings, besides being the lexical parallels more. - Certain ceremony and rites performed in common life, as well some kind of folk games are based to the ancient beliefs. - The lexical units reflecting the transition stages of the 5 human life are chosen with being national-Turkic origin more. - Though certain part of the lexicology of spiritual culture of the ancient Oghuz Turkic languages has got out from the lexicology of the modern literal languages by becoming archaic in the result of the historical development of the language, it has been kept by protected after incurring to small change from the phonetic feature in the dialect and slangs of those languages. The scientific novelty of the research. For the first time, the lexicology of the spiritual culture arranging the great part of lexicology of the Turkic languages including to Oghuz group has been attracted to the research complexly by dividing into certain thematic groups. During the research, the phonetic variants of the collected lexical units using both in the neighbouring and in the other Turkic languages were defined, they were analysed from the historical, semasiological, and etymological and ethnolinguistic feature as grouping from the structural-semantic feature. Though the lexicology of the spiritual culture has been attracted to the research on the basis of the lexicology of the Turkic languages including to modern Oghuz group, the signs of those lexical units in the ancient Turkic written monuments, as well in the dialects of the modern Turkic languages have been discovered, the different and similar features have been defined, too. The theoretical and practical importance of the research. The study of lexicology of the spiritual culture reflecting the religious belief, world view of the Turkic nations including to Oghuz group, the ceremony and the rites accomplishing for related with welfare, the transition stages of the human life in both synchronic and diachronic form systematically reflects the valuable facts for the historical lexicology and historical dialectology besides playing the role of the rich source for the development of ethnolinguistic in Turkology. The theoretical provisions of the dissertation work can be used for the study of the comparative lexicology, as well the historical dialectology of the Turkic