LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF PIDLASSYA DIALECTS IN JOURNALISTIC TEXTS (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF ONE ISSUE OF THE MAGAZINE “ABOVE THE BUG AND NARVA”)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the linguistic analysis of Pidlassya dialects represented in the texts of one issue of the magazine “Above the Bug and Narva” (No. 3, 2023). The specified source of materials contains texts written in Ukrainian and Polish languages, as well as in Pidlassya dialects, in addition, some of them are written in Cyrillic, some in Latin. The purpose of the research is to analyze at all language levels the dialectal features of the texts written in Pidlassya dialects on the pages of the magazine “Above the Bug and Narva”. The research was carried out using the method of linguistic description with technics of external and internal interpretation: dialect units were analyzed in terms of inter-level connections, differentiation and classification of dialect elements was carried out. The comparative method made it possible to reveal the phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic features of the Pidlassya dialects in comparison with the features of the Ukrainian literary language, the Western Polissya dialects and the Polish literary language. The fact that journalistic texts have become the object of dialectological analysis for the first time establish the scientific novelty of this study. Research has shown that the phonetic dialectic features are the most numerous in the source base. The sound specificity of Pidlassya dialects is revealed by reflexes of etymological vowels, namely *о, *ě, *і. In the place of these sounds in the examples from the source base, the vowels [o], [y], [и], [i] are recorded, respectively. The features of the consonant sounds system of Podlasian dialects are the next: the frequency of unmitigated sibilants and the consonant [p], active use of the soft consonant [l']. The morphological features of Pidlassya dialects are represented by examples from the source base mainly by uncontracted forms of pronouns, adjectives ending in -и instead of -ий, and some atypical case forms of nouns. At the lexical level, among the atypical features, numerous borrowings from the Polish language are noted, and the basis of the vocabulary is the vocabulary of the Ukrainian literary language in a dialectal phonetic-morphological representation. Syntactic features are traced episodically – on examples of the functioning of prepositions, which is atypical for the Ukrainian literary language. The results of the research show that the Pidlassya dialects presented in the analyzed issue of the «Над Бугом і Нарвою» magazine have their own specific characteristics, as well as features consonant with the Western Polissya dialects, Ukrainian and Polish literary languages.