Гибридизация русского старообрядческого говора в Польше
Hybridization of the Russian Old-Believers’ Island dialect in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The dialect of Old-Believers, who have lived in Poland on North-Eastern borderlands since the end of 18th century, has retained its Russian, Pskovian character for a long time. After World War II it became an island dialect, and in the last 30-40 years, due to a number of reasons, it started to change under growing Polish influence. The influence is visible mainly on lexical, syntactic and phonetic levels and leads to hybridization, i.e. such a change by which one ofthe languages provides a formal grammatical frame for functioning of the phenomena taken from both of them. In the case in question, Russian morphology is such a frame for emerging hybrid-dialect, and it allows to preserve its Russian dialectal characteristics.

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