Polsko-ukraińskie kontakty językowe w mowie ukraińskojęzycznych mieszkańców województwa lwowskiego

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to present Polish-Ukrainian contacts in the south-eastern borderlands, language influences resulting from the direct neighbourhood of Poles and Ukrainians. In modern Ukrainian, you can find a number of polonisms, very often worded or changed word-forming. There are many more of them in the Ukrainian dialects, where the Polish population for centuries has been adjacent to the Ukrainian, especially on the borderland of the country. The observations I will present are the result of many years of research conducted in 2012–2017. The subject of the discussion are Polish linguistic influences on the Ukrainian dialect in terms of vocabulary. Dialectological research covered the local Ukrainian community of the village of Wolica (1040 people) and Trzcieniec (573 people) in the Mosciski region, where Ukrainians now constitute the majority, because almost 85% of the population. The remaining 15% is the Polish population, which at the beginning of the 21st century accounted for almost 30% of the inhabitants of these villages. The lexical borrowings are, first of all, words referring to everyday life, realities of everyday reality, and mainly they refer to the home, household, economic tools or names related to kitchen utensils, names of food. This is a situation that shows how strictly ethnography connects with dialectology; After all, folk objects reproduce the material culture, in their names they bring back the history, the mentality of the people who created them and use them.