Semantic features of vocabulary related to professions and crafts in the works of Alisher Navoi

Abstract

Investigating the language of Alisher Navoi’s works from a linguistic perspective is one of the major tasks of modern philology. A comprehensive and in-depth study of Navoi’s literary heritage provides an opportunity to address a number of unresolved issues in linguistics. This article attempts to reveal the linguistic features of Navoi’s works, with particular attention to the semantic characteristics of borrowed words used in his writings, especially the vocabulary related to professions and crafts.