M. MALBAKOV – THE RESEARCHER OF THE STRUCTURAL BASIS OF EXPLANATORY DICTIONARIES OF THE KAZAKH LANGUAGE

Abstract

In the article, the history of the formation and development of Kazakh lexicography is considered, and also scientific-theoretical significance of the scientist’s works in the field of explanatory dictionaries of the Kazakh language is defined.

Professor M. Malbakov is a leading expert in the area of Kazakh Linguistics history and an experienced scientist who made comprehensive research of the theoretical and scientific methodological bases of Kazakh lexicography. As a result, he studied in detail the structural basis of explanatory dictionaries of the Kazakh language.

In this aspect he defined the principles of presentation and selection of words in the explanatory dictionary, i.e. of register words, determination and interpretation of word meanings, specification of polysemanticism and semantic fields, distinction of homonyms, the ways of interpretation of voice forms.

All these questions undoubtedly have exceptional value for subsequent editions not only of explanatory dictionaries, but also of dictionaries of various type of the Kazakh language.