PRONOMINAL DIALECT PARADIGM IN SEREDNIY MAIDAN PATOIS NADVIRNA DISTRICT

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to determine dialectal features of pronoun change in Seredniy Maidan village patois (Nadvirna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine); to describe the village patois forms of personal and reflexive, demonstrative, possessive pronouns coupled with joint group of attributive, interrogative (relative), negative and indefinite pronouns; to establish cultural and historical factors that influenced dialectal pronoun inflexion. The following linguistic analysis methods were employed in the study: selection and data classification (when forming an extract of pronoun dialect forms in patois), observation (when establishing patois evidence of pronouns change within the context of their declension in separate adjacent dialects of southwestern vernacular – Pokuttia-Bukovyna, Hutsul, and Naddnistrian dialects), contrastive (when comparing the changes of pronouns, adjectives and nouns patois forms), and descriptive (when analyzing the pronouns of different grammatical classes). Relying on the comprehensive description of pronouns various grammatical categories changes in Seredniy Maidan patois Nadvirna district, Ivano- Frankivsk region, Ukraine), the main dialectal features and cultural-historical factors that caused it have been identified. These are, in particular, various phonetic processes, the influences of grammatical analogy observed in different case-forms of personal, reflexive, demonstrative, possessive, attributive, interrogative (relative), negative, and indefinite pronouns in the studied patois. Patois features in the paradigm of the specified categories of pronouns are to the utmost revealed in the form of ablative, locative, and dative cases, whereas they are less markedly displayed in the form of nominative and genitive cases. The analysis of pronoun dialectal paradigm in the local patois in different caseforms of personal, reflexive, demonstrative, possessive, attributive, interrogative (relative), negative, and indefinite pronouns is testimony to the presence of some southwestern dialect traits in it, primarily that of Pokuttia-Bukovyna, Hutsul, and Naddniestrian dialects.