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Северо-восточные ареальные инновации в польском языке
North-Eastern areal innovations in the Polish language

Author(s): Natalya Snigireva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Polsko-Rosyjski
Keywords: isogloss; innovation; irradiation; contact zone

Summary/Abstract: Object of the research: The corpus of areas of the linguistic phenomena observed on the territory of the north-eastern Poland and whose characteristics can give evidence of the formation of the Belarusian-Polish language community. Subject of the research: The different-level north-eastern areal innovations in the Polish language recorded on the genetically Polish territory. Purpose of the research: To determine the areal-typological specifics of the northeastern innovations in the Polish dialectal language. Research methods: Contrastive-comparative, areal-typological, comparative historical, descriptive-analytical with the elements of onomasiological and numerical analysis. Scientific novelty and value of the results received. This is the first work in the Slavonic linguistics researching the spread of the Belarusian areal influence on the phonetic, morphological, lexical-semantic and lexical-word-forming levels on the complete territory of the north-eastern Poland, rather than within a limited zone of the traditional influence of Eastern-Slavonic languages. For a number of areas of the innovational phenomena in the Polish dialectal language the author provides her own interpretation based on the analysis and systematization of selected material as well as study of local and foreign sources on the subject of the research. Practical value of the results received. The results of the thesis work can be useful in areal-typological studying of Slavonic languages, compilation of regional geolinguistic atlases, teaching of the Belarusian and Polish dialectology in universities, subject-related seminars, creation of manuals and teaching aids on respective subjects.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 2 (5)
  • Page Range: 50-71
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Russian