Samina Sabir Abdullayeva

NORM OF HOMONYMS IN THE AZERBAIJANI LANGUAGE

Abstract. Homonyms constitute one of the most ancient lexical layers of the Azerbaijani language. The period of homonym formation dates back to a stage when the conceptual potential of the language was enriched, but the verbal model was limited. Since the verbal model for increasing information content was limited during the formation of homonyms, individual concepts were compressed into a single verbal model. That is, in human thought, individual concepts were perceived syncretically, as a single whole. Thus, at the initial stage of homonym formation, their norms also developed within the framework of human thought. Homonyms continued their traditions, periodically being used in the language, and maintained norm stability. This created the impression in the imagination that homonyms are groups of words, similar in form but different in content. The presence of variants of homonyms belonging to the same part of speech and to different parts of speech led experts to the conclusion that homonyms belonging to the same part of speech originated from polysemy, and tonality was the main means in the formation of homonyms belonging to different parts of speech.

Key words: syncretism, vocabulary, tonality, polisemy, borrowing