Abstract

The object of the article is the problem of the description and functioning of parts of speech in the Ukrainian dialects. The subject of this study is the specificity of parts of speech realization in dialects. The purpose of the article is to investigate the peculiarities of parts of speech functioning in dialectal macro texts of the Ukrainian steppe dialect spoken in the v. Shevchenkove, Kiliya district, Odessa region, spread in the multi-lingual and multi-dialectal area between the Danube and the Dniester rivers. The author gives reasons for the necessity to apply dialectal text as a source of the linguistic information, highlights its peculiarities, distinguishes central and peripheral morphological phenomena of dialect system on the basis of frequency of occurrence; identifies functional lacunas as specific markers of dialectal morphology. Methodology comprises of such methods and procedures of dialectal analysis as: statistical method for establishing central and peripheral morphological phenomena of the dialect grammatical system; an invariant overdialectal model which is devised and employed innovationally for a consistent description of all the parts of speech of the dialect and allow revealing of functional lacunas and superfluity. The latter are finding of research. The practical value of the investigation is to use the suggested tools of the morphological level description for analysis of other Ukrainian dialects.

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