Dialectical features of I. Bazhansky's diary-chronicle “War”

Abstract

The article examines the linguistic features of the diary-chronicle “War” by I. Bazhansky, in particular the dialect vocabulary. The language of I. Bazhansky's works is valuable because it allows to draw conclusions about the peculiarities of the Ukrainian language of the early ХХ century on the territory of Bukovina. The relevance of the research is determined by the need of studing of dialectical features of the diary-chronicle“War” by Bukovinian teacher and writer Ivan Bazhanskyi. Exploring the linguistic features of the diary-chronicle requires a comprehensive analysis to make an effective communicative influence on the reader. The aim of scientific work is to analyze phonetic, lexical, word-forming, morphological and syntactic dialectisms in the Ivan Bazhanskyi diary-chronicle “War”. The novelty of research is conditioned by the fact that in the Ukrainian linguistics dialectal phenomena of the Ivan Bazhanskyi diary-chronicle "War" has been explored for the first time. Research methods. In the article as the main general scientific methods of induction and deduction are used, as well as linguistic – descriptive and structural methods. Conclusions. Phonetic and morphological dialectisms recorded in this literary text reflect the basic phonetic and grammatical patterns of Bukovinian dialects. Word-forming dialectisms in modern Bukovinian dialects are obsolete. Among the lexical dialectisms we distinguish the actual lexical and semantic dialectisms. Lexical dialectisms of the diary-chronicle “War” by I. Bazhansky are classified by lexical-thematic groups: LTG of military affairs, LTG of economic sphere of use, abstract names, nominations of a person, names of clothes, nominations of people, etc. Each group includes specific Ukrainian words and borrowed names.