Syntactic interferences in isolated dialects (on the basis of the Russian dialect of the Suwałki–Augustów region Old Believers and the Polish dialect of the inhabitants of Vershina in Siberia) Cover Image

Interferencje składniowe w gwarach wyspowych (na przykładzie rosyjskiej gwary staroobrzędowców z regionu suwalsko-augustowskiego i polskiej gwary mieszkańców Wierszyny na Syberii)
Syntactic interferences in isolated dialects (on the basis of the Russian dialect of the Suwałki–Augustów region Old Believers and the Polish dialect of the inhabitants of Vershina in Siberia)

Author(s): Dorota Angelika Paśko-Koneczniak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Old Believers; Vershina; syntactic interference; isolated dialects; calque; bilingualism

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to discuss Polish syntactic interferences in the Russian dialect used by the Old Believers and, by analogy, Russian interferences in the Polish dialect of the inhabitants of Vershina. The dialects of the Old Believers living in the Suwałki-Augustów region and the inhabitants of Vershina are island dialects and are subject to the interferences caused by the languages surrounding them, especially on lexical and syntactic levels. In both dialects, in the case of syntactic interferences, we can observe loan translations of many structures, for instance, changes in terms of government, the ways of expressing age, structures with such cardinal numbers as one, two, three and four, the ways of expressing nominal predicates and the temporal relation signifying frequency and repeatability. Such structures do not contribute towards enriching the lexicon of the dialects with new lexemes, yet they indicate the dynamics of changes in them.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 50
  • Page Range: 195-207
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish