The place of toponymy in the language’s lexical system and structural morphological analysis of toponyms of Great Britain and Azerbaijan

Abstract

Toponymy takes a special place in the lexical-semantic system of language. Its research is possible on the basis of a number of  sciences including linguistics, historical geography and history of a definite territory. Toponyms give a valuable information about the history of the people, the traditions, customs and religion. Structural-morphological analysis of toponomicon of Great Britain and Azerbaijan showed that they are divided into there groups: simple, derived and complex place-names. Amongst complex place-names toponyms with geographical nomen prevail. There is a binary opposition in them. Binary opposition is characteristic for many languages of the world, including Indo-European and Turkic. This factor is connected with identity of perception of linguistic picture of the world.