Պարոյր Աղպաշեան2025-06-042025-06-041980Աղպաշեան, Պ., «Մելքոն Կիւրճեանի բառապաշարին որոշ տարրերը», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1980, Պէյրութ, էջ 289-299https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/596Melkon Gurdjian (1859-1915), the well-known Armenian short story writer, who was one of the forerunners of provincial literature, equally illustrates himself as one of the reformers of western Armenian literary language. The article studies Melkon Gurdjian's lexicon, taking into consideration specially the worn-out words of his vocabulary and their meaning, old Armenian (grabar) elements, dialectical aspects, rarely used words, and new words coined and constructed by him.