Husband’s Mother and Wife’s Mother: Kinship Terms for Spouse Parents in the Arkhangelsk Region Dialects

The article discusses the kinship terms in the Arkhangelsk Region dialects on the example of the terms for Spouse Parents (Husband’s Mother, Husband’s Father, Wife’s Mother, Wife’s Father). The author provides the inventory of terms, refers to their possibility / impossibility in vocative usage, considers analytical forms and phrases denoting the spouse parents, shows the regular use of the consanguinal kin terms for the nomination and appeal to the in-laws, the possibility of semantic transfer, and idiomatic usage of the terms.