Формирование астионимной системы Витебщины и Смоленщины

Abstract

В статье впервые предпринимается попытка комплексного описания астионимии Витебщины и Смоленщины = The paper attempts to give a comprehensive description of the actionii of Vitebsk and Smolensk. Considering the chronology boundaries of their existence the nominative features are determined as well as structural, grammatical and derivative features. The article also presents the two distinguished types of astionyms, i.e. the names historically referred to urban settlements and the names that originally came from komonyms due to the changes of status of the settlement.