Polskie zapożyczenia leksykalne w ukraińskiej gwarze nadsańskiej (na przykładzie kilku wsi z regionu mościskiego)
Lexical borrowings from Polish in the Ukrainian dialect spoken in the San river area (on the example of villages from the region of Mostiska)

Summary/Abstract: The influence of the Polish language on the Ukrainian local dialect results fromthe long-lasting contact between the two languages and from the bilingualism of those whospeak them. On the basis of the presented examples one may draw the conclusion thatthe complicated cultural and linguistic situation of the inhabitants of southern borderland,especially those belonging to the middle-aged and the young generation, results in the factthat it is difficult for them to specify their identity and to distinguish which language itemis actually Ukrainian and which is a borrowing. The analysis of their Ukrainian dialectshows that its condition results from the development of both the external processes andthe internal processes which include a diffusion of Polish influences. Sometimes it is difficultto distinguish foreign influences from preserved archaisms or from the language’sown change and development.

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