Характерные языковые и понятийные черты восточнославянской общности

Abstract

As a result of the carried-out stratigraphy of areal archaisms and innovations the author came to the conclusion that Krivitji (then the East Slavic) areal was superpositioned on a predominantly Venetic substratum in the banks of the Western Bug, Dvina, Pripyat and Dnieper, some few relics of which are hardly noticeable. The Repertoire of the East-Slavic innovations clearly breaks up into the ancient Krivitji (East Slavic) innovations of VII–VIII centuries. The analysis and stratigraphy of characteristic archaisms and innovations of the East Slavic areal makes it clear that in its repertoire of linguistic archaisms and traditional pantheon the East Slavic dialectal areal and Krivitji dialect in particular clearly originate from Anto-Slavic dialectal group of Late Common Slavonic of the VI century AD. Krivitji originate from Slavic union of tribes of the East-Carpathian areas. On the surface of the western sector of the Eastern Slavic areal some innovations of superstrate nature of Polish origin are visible. They appeared in a period of active hybridization of Old Russian and Old Polish languages, creolization of Polish (in eastern voivodships) in the region of XVI–XVIII centuries.