PRONOMINAL ADVERB ZDE AND ITS DERIVATIVES IN RUSSIAN DIALECTS OF KARELIA
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МЕСТОИМЕННОЕ НАРЕЧИЕ ЗДЕ И ДЕРИВАТЫ В РУССКИХ ГОВОРАХ КАРЕЛИИ И СОПРЕДЕЛЬНЫХ ОБЛАСТЕЙ
PRONOMINAL ADVERB ZDE AND ITS DERIVATIVES IN RUSSIAN DIALECTS OF KARELIA AND ADJACENT REGIONS

Author(s): Elena Rafhatovna Guseva
Subject(s): Philology
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: conjunction; partícule; syntax; morphology; Russian northern dialects

Summary/Abstract: There is a large number of pronominal adverbs representing particular clusters – lexemes, formed by means of agglutination of ancientprimary elements – partícules under the influence of the Wackernagel’s law found in dialects of Karelia and adjacent regions.The paper studies structural and semantic characteristics of the adverb zde and its derivatives zdes’a, zdeka, zdekava etc., fixed inthe “Dictionary of the Russian dialects of Karelia and adjacent regions” and the “Dictionary of the Russian national dialects” fromthe point of synchronous and diachronous approaches. The study shows that lexemes formed on the basis of the particule se/sь asan indicator of certainty, consist of two, three, four or five components. An archaic form zde (zd’o, zdi) is a two-component clusterthat functioned in the ancient Russian language and is encapsulated in the dialect speech. Structurally more complex lexemes appearin the dialects through the attachment of formants -s’a (-s’), -ka (-ku, -ko, -tka, -tko), -ne, -va etc. The third, the fourth and the fifthcomponents are desemantised; the formant -s’a (-s’), apparently, is an exception. The attaching particules bare a stressing and highlightingfunction. The three-component clusters were formed in the Old-Russian period; the four- and the five-component clusterswere formed later. There is a tendency of adding the fifth component -to to the adverbs (zdes’aka-to, zdes’atko-to), but new lexemesare not formed.