Синонімія загальних назв одягу в українських східностепових говірках

Abstract

The article focuses on the peculiarities of lexical synonymy in Eastern steppe dialects based on the material of one lexical-semantic group – common names of clothes. The source of the research is factual material recorded from dialect speakers of different age categories at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries in the dialects of the settlements of Donetsk region. Lexical doubletness (or absolute synonyms) is defined as the most common type of synonymous relations in the segment of dialect vocabulary under analysis. The reasons for the functioning of a significant number of absolute synonyms in the speech have been established. The influence of different Ukrainian dialects on the formation of the lexical system of newly created eastern steppe dialects is analysed as the main factor in the functioning of a significant number of doublet-synonymous common names of clothes. It is found out that the occurrence of a significant number of doublets is also due to the influence of the literary language and is caused by internal dialectal modifications that occur in Eastern steppe dialects. Continuity of nominative processes in the newly created dialects of Donetsk region is manifested not only in the increase in the number of lexical doublets as a result of interdialectal contacts or the influence of the literary language, but also in the subsequent processes of semantic and stylistic differentiation of doublet names. This has led to the active functioning of semantic and stylistic synonyms in the dialects in question. Appearance of a significant number of synonymous common names of clothes is determined by significant variations in the semantic structure of the nomen in the newly created Eastern steppe dialects.