Лексичні особливості східностепових говірок півдня Донеччини

Abstract

Eastern steppe dialects of Donechchyna attract the attention of researchers both due to the late and heterogeneous history of settlement and due to its geographical location since they exist on the periphery of the Ukrainian dialect continuum. The purpose of this article is to study the lexical features of the eastern steppe dialects of the southern Donetsk oblast based on the names of clothes and to clarify the possibility of separating these dialects into a specific microarea. The task of this research is to analyse structural and semantic features of clothing names via areal projection; to identify the reasons and regularities of the variability of the specified vocabulary in space; to elucidate common and distinctive features of the dialects under study and neighboring dialects; to establish the features of the spatial behavior of the eastern steppe dialects of the south of Donetsk oblast. The article analyses the peculiarities of the spatial behavior of the Ukrainian dialects of southern Donechchyna based on the names of clothes, which allows us to assert that the mentioned dialects are аn inherent component of the eastern steppe Ukrainian dialects. The areal characteristics of everyday vocabulary in this part of the Ukrainian dialect continuum attest to such types of spatial behavior of clothing names as: minimal differentiation and dialect mosaic. Only a part of lexical and semantic represented linguistic maps allows us to distinguish a group of eastern steppe dialects in the south of the Donetsk oblast into the southern microarea. The dialects of the southern microarea are characterized by the following specific features: the functioning of contrasting lexical units that are completely or partially different from other Donetsk dialects; isoglosses of a number of lexeme names continue in Lower Dnipro Ukrainian dialects; the peculiarities of the semantic structure of the analysed nomens often turn out to be a differential feature; the factual material included in the analysis reflects the consequences of dialect interaction which is regularly reflected in newly created dialects; common and dialect words used in other Ukrainian dialects dominate but there are also lexemes of a narrow local nature.