Взаємодія діалектних та літературних назв речей хатнього вжитку в українських східнослобожанських говірках
Peculiar Features of Names of Household Objects in the Ukrainian Eastern Slobodian Dialects

Summary/Abstract: This article presents an analysis of vocabulary of household objects in the Ukrainian Eastern Slobodian dialects. The area of vocabulary under discussion attracts the attention of researchers owing to its connection with material culture: it reflects human daily needs, social and economic living conditions and inter-ethnic contacts. Research on peculiarities of lexical composition of the local dialects in question remains relevant. The Eastern Slobodian dialects have emerged relatively recently and have been hardly investigated at all, which is why they are of great scholarly interest and require complex study. Special features of this dialectal system stem mainly from the fact that the area is unevenly populated by immigrants from different regions of Ukraine and Russia. The study presented in this article determined the quantitative composition of dialectal material and the functional role of particular lexical items under scrutiny; it also involved their lexical and semantic analysis. Considerable attention has been paid to tracking semantic parallels and differences between the dialects in focus and other dialectal continuums of the Ukrainian language, both the adjacent and more distant ones. In order to examine the interaction between the literary language and the Eastern Slobodian dialects, the lexical units on the record were compared with the national lexicon. The analysis revealed that most names of household objects found in the Eastern Slobodian dialects are in common general use, which indicates the influence of standard speech on the dialects under consideration.

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