Word-formation System Research Articles

Dokument utraconego/zanikającego dziedzictwa. Różnorodność leksykalno-słowotwórcza matki w gwarach Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur

The aim of the article was to present the lexical richness and word-formation potential of the lexeme matka [mother] in the dialects of Ostróda, Warmia and Mazury. The lexemes mother, mama and muter, as well as their derivatives were analyzed. The linguistic material was based on the file of Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur [A Dictionary of Dialects of Ostróda, Warmia and Masuria Regions] that is a record of dialect status at the end of the 1950s. The lexeme matka is connected with the creation of 10 derivatives, the lexeme mama – with 7 derivatives, and muter – 2 derivatives. The derivation of the last word is a proof of the adaptation of a German root in the dialects under discussion. The analysis of the material has shown that the derivatives have a modify ing semantic function and they convey positive emotions towards the referent. In this way, hypocoristic formations were created whose suffixes do not differ significantly from the general Polish word-formation system. In addition, it turned out that about 80% of the derivatives come from the dialect literary style, as the second degree suffixes are not functional in the analyzed dialects. In communicating positive feelings towards the designate, simple suffixes were sufficient for the language users. It is not possible to determine isomorphs on the basis of the material collected in the file, as questions about diminutives were attached to the questionnaire at the last stage of the fieldwork.

Adverbs in Contrast – Criteria for Distinguishing from Other Parts of Speech

This paper attempts at examining and determining, using the vast corpus of Serbian and German languages, whether the part of speech in question exists as such in each of these languages, as well as whether it (adverb) is a universal or specific language category. The research shows that most languages recognise the adverb as a distinctive part of speech, which implies that it is a universal category that can be defined according to the following criteria: a) morphological (adverbs have no flexions, but they undergo comparison with regard to the relative subclass) and syntactic (conditioned by verbs as nucleus, assuming in most cases the function of adverbials as verb complements; b) rare attributive function before nouns and adverbs themselves; c) differences between specific languages, German and Serbian included, are a result of their respective word formation systems. In this particular case, each of the two languages recognises relatively few simple words (simplizia); on the other hand, the explicit (suffixational) derivation is largely productive in Serbian, whereas there is a completely opposite situation in German concerning this issue (although the process is recorded in the latter as well); and, finally, adverb derivatives in Serbian correspond, as a rule, to adjectives and prepositional phrases functioning as adverbials in German.

Boundaries of word-formation. New reflections on old things

The attitude that word-formation fully coincides with derivation has been well established in the Lithuanian linguistics. The means of formation that fall outside derivation are regarded as peripheries of derivation that are not worth a considerable attention, although formal features of derivation are obvious (skruzdėlė cf. skruzdė), or absolutely fruitless prescriptive discussions about some kind of mistakes (profsąjunga cf. vyrgydytojas) are generated. In addition, composition is attributed to derivation, even when it is not clear where word-formation formant is and how to identify the meaning of forming a compound (nelaižytveršis: nelaižytas veršis). The article puts forward a solution to the discussed problems, which embraces all the formation in the Lithuanian language (not only derivation) and deals with the problems of derivation mentioned here.Seeking to address the problems raised, it is necessary to evaluate the role of language economy in the word-formation and, based on this evaluation, to expand perception of the importance of word-formation. Word-formation embraces not only derivation, but also all other ways of formation that go beyond the boundaries of morphemes. However auxiliary, insignificant or peripheral they may seem, they are a part of an integral word-formation system. All the attributes of this word-formation phenomenon, such as opposition, foundation and formant, synchronically apply to the whole word-formation. For this reason, the boundaries of derivation should be expanded. The most significant question here refers to semantic measuring and the volume of the formation meaning. Taking into account the fact that the main and fully comprehensive function of word-formation is not about increasing the number of words, but rather about rationalisation of their emergence, i.e. language economy, and also assuming that all the aspects of formation meaning (lexical, grammatical as well as economy) overlap and only one of them prevails, the general scheme of formation meaning (not only the derivational meaning) can be presented more or less as follows:Meaning of economy (profsąjunga, mikriukas, epaštas, JT, sodra, nelaižytveršis, eras, skruzdė) economizing means of linguistic expression.Grammatical meaning (gerumas, ėjimas, begalvis, palangė, stiklinė) change in grammatical content economizing means of linguistic expression. Lexical meaning (žiūrovas, namelis, įlanka, snūduriuoti, rugiagėlė, nueiti) change in lexical content economizing means of linguistic expression and changing grammatical content if necessary.Such explanation of the general meaning of formation and inclusion of language economy expands the understanding of formation beyond the boundaries of derivation and allows referring to a new concept of the word-formation system.

FUNCTIONAL-STYLISTIC PECULIARITIES OF FORMATION AND INTERPRETATION OF NON-STANDARD EXPRESSIVE-EFFECTIVE FORMS OF SPEECH INTERACTION (ON THE MATERIAL OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING MILITARY DISCOURSE)

The article deals with the analysis and description of expressive-figurative means of original or occasional expression in functional-semantic and structural aspects.The pragmatic relevance of the formation of expressive forms of professional communication lies in the linguistic-creative expression of military team members' communicative need to overcome the stylistic neutrality of professional discourse terms. In so doing, they create a linguistic-cultural space for the self-realization of the personality in a specific professional environment. The fixed uniformity of linguistic rules establishes the sustainable order of their formal and content expression. The possibility of associative variation of the standard and creative components in the semantics of words results in the emergence of forms differing from the system of word formation, spelling and orthoepic norms. Structurally, owing to homonymy, polysemy, and homonymity, the constituent elements of the puns can be words as well as phrases. The phonetic-graphical coincidence or divergence of the kernel components of homophrasal puns and the nature of their formal expression creates various semantic forms. Moreover, the stylistic resource for the creative use of the language play includes intentional parody assimilation of paronymic lexemes, contextual identification of explicit and implicit homophones and their punning perception, simultaneous objectification of direct and associativefigurative meanings in specially built contextsdue to the semantic ambiguity of lexemes, the deliberate mispronunciation of foreign toponyms, the insertion of occasional expressive elements into the word structure, the phonographic and content reduction and combination of initial motivational forms and, as a consequence, the formation of pun-based contaminated units.

ОВЛАДЕНИЕ ДЕТЬМИ ДОШКОЛЬНОГО ВОЗРАСТА РУССКИМ ЯЗЫКОМ КАК РОДНЫМ В УСЛОВИЯХ ИНФОРМАЦИОННОЙ СОЦИАЛИЗАЦИИ

Statement of the problem. Nowadays, preschoolers are developing in a space of enhanced informational impact, which determines the qualitative changes in their perception, consciousness, thinking, motivational and emotional-volitional spheres, activities, ethical and value aspects of life. There are processes of too early inclusion of the child in the world of gadgets, which leads to disruption in communication with parents and adults, slower speech and communication skills development, autism spectrum disorders. The processes cause the problems in the formation of children’s thinking, the development of their cognitive activity, which results in the gradual loss of their native language as a leading tool of consciousness. The fact arouses concern as the speech development of preschoolers is undergoing changes related to the formation of speech abilities, skills, prerequisites for reading and writing, the culture of speech communication. The study addresses the problems of preschoolers’ understanding of the semantic diversity of their native language, difficulties in forming the vocabulary, mastering the system of language concepts, morphological, word-formation and syntactic regularities, mastering the sound culture of speech, the formation of coherent speech and communicative competence. Despite the fact that the issues of speech development of preschoolers in various aspects are rather widely covered, however, the particularities of preschool children learning the Russian language as a native language in the context of information socialization require a deeper consideration. The purpose of the article is to consider not only the psychological effects of information socialization on the speech development of a child, but also to search for new methods that contribute to the mastery of the Russian language as a mother tongue, forms of mastering the role-playing game as a leading neoplasm of preschool childhood, the development of the emotional sphere and cognitive activity. The research methodology includes theoretical analysis, a synthesis of studies conducted by international and Russian scientists, and research in the field of language education of children, diagnosis of speech and communicative development of children, mastery of the Russian language as a mother tongue. Empirical methods are implemented to diagnose the level of mastery of the Russian language as a native one. Research results. The study presents diagnostic data on the level of mastery of the mother tongue by senior preschoolers. The conclusion is drawn on the importance of the integrative application of interactive dialogue methods and techniques that contribute to the activation of the creative, cognitive, communicative initiative of preschool children: work on the semantics of the word; creating conditions for the development of the desire of children to integrate into joint activities; role-playing games using the role-changing technique; stimulation of children’s imagination in verbal inventing stories; application of techniques for creating plot compositions in a verbal story. Conclusion. The study presents new methods that contribute to the mastery of the Russian language as their native mother tongue by preschoolers to study and develop their creative, communicative and cognitive experience. The results show that the techniques help to increase the efficiency of communication between children and adults, to optimize the adaptation process of a child in the world of the Russian language, its value-national component.

Can the right hemisphere read? A behavioral and disconnectome study on implicit reading in a patient with pure alexia

ABSTRACT Patients with pure alexia have major difficulties in reading aloud. However, they often perform above chance level in reading tasks that do not require overt articulation of the target word – like lexical decision or semantic judgment – a phenomenon usually known as “implicit reading.” There is no agreement in the literature on whether implicit reading should be attributed to relative sparing of some left hemisphere (LH) reading centers or rather to signs of compensatory endeavors by the right hemisphere (RH). We report the case of an 81-year-old patient (AA) with pure alexia due to a lesion involving the left occipital lobe and the temporal infero-mesial areas, as well as the posterior callosal pathways. Although AA’s reading was severely impaired and proceeded letter by letter, she showed an above-chance-level performance for frequent concrete words in a tachistoscopic lexical decision task. A structural disconnectome analysis revealed that AA’s lesion not only affected the left occipital cortex and the splenium: it also disconnected white-matter tracts meant to connect the visual word-form system to decision-related frontal areas within the LH. We suggest that the RH, rather than the LH, may be responsible for patient AA’s implicit reading.

Czy opis synchroniczny systemu słowotwórczego polszczyzny jest kompletny?

Is the Synchronic Description of the Word-Formation System in Polish Complete?
 The paper describes sixty years of the development of studies on synchronic word formation in Poland. The period is divided into two stages: 1959–1999, and 1999–2019. The first part recalls the comprehensive, profound characterization of the forty-year period from 1959 to 1999, given by Mirosław Skarżyński in Powstanie i rozwój polskiego słowotwórstwa opisowego. The second part is devoted to the twenty years from 1999 to 2019, and presents the most important changes that occurred in this period in the description of our (sub)discipline of linguistics. It highlights M. Skarżyński’s influence on the direction and essence of those changes, as the personality who inspired and penned groundbreaking works in the field, especially as the editor and collaborator on the third volume of SGS. Not all of the findings presented in this dictionary are sufficiently known in the scientific millieu, primarily due to the dispersion of works that continue previous research. Only after a synthesis of the newest accomplishments is prepared, will it be possible to give a positive answer to the question in the title.

ДЕРИВАЦИОННЫЙ ПОТЕНЦИАЛ ИМЕН СУЩЕСТВИТЕЛЬНЫХ (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ЭВЕНСКОГО ЯЗЫКА)

Цель данной работы – выявить деривационный потенциал имен существительных и отдельных элементов словообразовательной системы в эвенском языке.Метод или методология проведения работы. При исследовании использованы описательно-методологический метод и перспективный словообразовательный анализ.Результат исследования при рассмотрении деривационных возможностей отдельных элементов словообразовательной системы (словообразовательное средство, словообразовательный способ) и типов эвенского языка выявлен деривационный потенциал исследуемого языка, в частности, имени существительного. Словообразовательное средство и способ словообразования связаны с деривационным потенциалом слова, т.е. со способностью слова к порождению производных, новых лексем. С этой позиции исследованы количество производных слов, возникших от производящего, и их качественные характеристики, что позволило сделать вывод о том, что имена существительные в эвенском языке обладают наибольшим словообразовательным потенциалом после глагола.Область применения результатов. Результаты работы могут быть использованы при составлении словообразовательного словаря эвенского языка, при изучении и преподавании эвенского языка.

Средства выражения начинательного способа действия в языке лесных юкагиров

The Yukaghir language has a rich word-formation system. The Yukaghir verbs are formed mainly by the suffixal method. Derivational suffixes often transfer the slightest nuances of the verb meaning. The research objective is to identify and describe the basic means to express inceptiveness in the Kolyma dialect of the Yukaghir language (the Forest Yukaghir language). Scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that relying on an analysis of linguistic material, the author for the first time highlights linguistic markers of inceptiveness in the Forest Yukaghir language. Some of the identified markers have not been previously investigated. The conclusion is made that in the Forest Yukaghir language, inceptiveness is expressed by both grammatical (verb forms with inceptive semantics) and non-grammatical (analytical) means.

New Phenomena in the Sphere of Derivation Formants as Reflection of the Dynamics of the Russian Language Word-Formation System

The article considers both new functional characteristics of known word-forming formants and new derivational formants. In modern Russian speech, there has been discovered such a new phenomenon, as the mobility of borrowed elements which can be qualified as affixes (ап, аут, ин, овер). Well-known formants of Greek and Latin origin have proved to perform new pragmatic-stylistic functions: prefixoids нано-, кибер-, крипто-; suffix -оид. These formants are mostly characteristic of terms, but, as the study showed, they can participate in the creation of expressive derivatives. The article uses the material of neologisms in fiction and media texts to identify new formants: prefixes мега-, нон-, он-, оф-; suffixes -инг, -раст; suffixoids -гейт, -оголик; movable formants ап, аут, ин, овер. The appearance of new formants and new semantic and pragmatic characteristics of the known formants reflects the dynamics of the word-formation system of the Russian language, due to the processes of internationalization, "ameroglobalization" in different languages at the turn of the 20 th – 21 th centuries. Neo-derivatives testify to the specifics of knowledge and experience acquisition with the help of word-formation methods and means relevant for a certain period of time. The results of the study contribute to derivatology, neology, pragmalinguistics and can be useful for lecturers and students of higher educational institutions majoring in "Philology" and "Journalism".

Semantic-Pragmatic Evolution of the Latin Prefix SUPER (according to Polish and English)

The cognitive mechanisms underlying the semantic-pragmatic evolution of the prepositive component of Latin origin super are described. The analysis is carried out on the basis of the data of the modern Polish language, studied in comparison with the data of the English and Latin languages, acting as donors of the semantic-pragmatic evolution of the prefix. It is proved that the locative semantics of the prefix serves as a trigger that starts the processes of metaphorical reinterpretation in modern English. It is shown that the final stage of the pragmatization of the formant is it’s functioning as an evaluative predicate and emotive interjection. It is stated that in the host Slavic language, the specificity of actualization in speech of the super component is determined by the interaction of linguistic and extralinguistic factors. It is emphasized that the integration of post-socialist countries into the global socio-economic space determines the intensive pragmatic-oriented use of this component in advertising discourse and in colloquial speech. It is noted that the influence of the linguistic factor - the features of the word-formation system - determines a new stage in the morphological evolution of the component super. It has been established that, within the affixal derivatives, a new meaning of an element acquiring the status of a root morpheme is being fixed. The relevance of the work performed is determined by the functional and explanative approach to the description of active word-formation processes occurring in modern Slavic languages under the influence of the universal tendency of linguistic globalization.

Конверсия в системе словообразования английского языка

Конверсия в системе словообразования английского языка

Словообразовательный тип в аспекте его лексической реализации (к проблеме лакунарности словообразовательной системы русского языка)

Словообразовательный тип в аспекте его лексической реализации (к проблеме лакунарности словообразовательной системы русского языка)

WAYS OF COVID-19 NEOLOGISMS WORD-FORMATION IN ENGLISH EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DISCOURSE

The article deals with the issues of ways of word-formation of neologisms naming COVID-19 phenomena in English epidemiological discourse. The novelty of the research lays in the fact that at the contemporary stage of linguistic studies we are witnessing a new turn, deeper and more detailed, to the investigation of neologisms formation because of a rapid increasing of their number. This affords grounds to define some changes and concrete tendencies in a word-formation system of a definite language, and of the English language in particular. The goal of the article is to reveal productive word-formation models of new words denoting COVID-19 in English epidemiological discourse. It has been worked out that the key features of the discourse under analysis are immanent influence, intermediality (usage of verbal, semi-verbal and non-verbal means) and suggestion. The article also deals with possible reasons of COVID-19 neologisms appearance (manufactories’ lockdown, business projects’ folding, changes in everyday life, essential modification of human’s activities), which found its wide realization of numerous verbal means of nominating COVID-19: new medical terms, neologisms naming new social phenomena, adding new shades of meaning to already known medical terms and their use not only in epidemiological discourse, but also in everyday speech, activation of metaphorization in the process of COVID-19 neologisms formation. It’s proved that among telescopic ways of COVID-19 neologisms formation we distinguish the following rather productive models: adjustment of the full form of the first word and a “piece” of the second; blending of the first part of a word and the final part of the second word; blending of a “piece” of a word with a full stem of another word. It’s also has been worked out that one of the important ways of COVID-19 neologisms formation in English epidemiological discourse is medical metaphor, which serves as a universal cognitive mechanism of transforming of scientific knowledge, as language representation of human ideas about risks. Among other kinds of metaphor which denote COVID-19 phenomena we distinguish: military metaphor, sports metaphor and journey metaphor.

О словообразовательной гибридизации в эпоху «глобанглизации» (на материале русского и польского языков)

Comprehensive analysis of collected hybrid derivatives shows that globalization and Anglo-American “linguistic hegemony” have increased the production of English origin international morphemes (-инг / -ing, -гейт / -gate) and so-called “Euro-Latin” affixes (-завр / -zaur, -(о)номика / -(o)nomika), penetrating into the Russian and Polish word-formation systems through the mass media. In both languages the following processes are noticeable: 1) resemantization and activation of international affixes; 2) development of new hybrid derivative models; 3) creating with the help of morphemes abstracted from composites new formally and semantically condensed nouns, which allows us to notice an agglutination tendency.

Dephrasal adjectives in Polish – A case of syntax-inside-morphology

The present paper is part of a larger project which investigates the issue of “syntax-inside-morphology” in the domain of Polish word-formation. In what follows, we explore the thus far unstudied territory of dephrasal adjectives, such as tużpopołudniowy ‘right-after-noon’ and ponadstustronicowy ‘over-one-hundred-page’ built on phrasal bases subjected to suffixation.
 It is generally acknowledged that the Polish word-formation system is not designed to comprise phrasal compounding – a word-formation type which has come to be considered a flagship representative of the morphology-syntax interface (see Szymanek 2017 and Pafel 2017). Nevertheless, one may come across a number of Polish word-formation patterns, such as the class of nouns derived from PPs (e.g. nausznik ‘earmuff’ [[naP uszyN]PP -nik]N) or synthetic compound words (e.g. bydłobójnia ‘abattoir’ [[bydłN-o-bójV]VP -nia]N) which should clearly be considered legitimate members of the global “syntax-inside-morphology” community (see Kolbusz-Buda 2019a).
 In what follows, we want to argue that Polish dephrasal adjectives should be recognised as a case of morphology-syntax interplay on a par with the already attested cross-linguistic material. The phrasal character of the Polish data to be discussed in this study is so strong that researching this sui generis type of derivation seems not only a valid linguistic undertaking but also one with important implications. The study may have far-reaching consequences for the descriptive adequacy of the Polish word-formation system and point to new directions in the discussion on the morphology-syntax interface. The morphological structure of the adjectives to be discussed will be juxtaposed with the class of Polish compounds proper, in particular, synthetic compounds – a word-formation type which can be considered the closest in its morphological make-up to the presented material. Offering such a comparative perspective seems necessary as the adjectives to which we choose to refer as products of dephrasal suffixation are casually classified as compounds. Moreover, although Polish does not note any cases of phrasal compounding, the morphological structure of the adjectives in question will be additionally examined to discover potential parallels between the two word-formation types. The reason behind this undertaking is two-fold. Firstly, as has already been mentioned, dephrasal adjectives are classified as compounds; secondly, they contain a phrasal unit.
 In our analysis, we draw on a revised version of the Lexical Integrity Hypothesis, i.e. Lieber and Scalise’s (2007) Firewall Theory, which belongs to the current of the so-called mixed models of word-formation advanced in the recent years by, for instance, Ackema and Neeleman 2004 and Pafel 2017, allowing for a limited intermodular interaction between morphological and syntactic domains.

DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE’S WORD FORMATION TERMINOLOGY IN THE GRAMATICS OF THE XVI-TH – THE FIRST HALF OF THE XX-TH CENTURY

The article deals with the peculiarities of formation and development of word-formation terminology in the Ukrainian language.The aim of the study is to analyze the formation of specifics and terminological units selection of the word-building system in Ukrainian grammar, from the early stages (XVI-th century.) to the first half of XX-th century. To achieve this goal, it is important to trace the ways of developing the terminology system of word-formation and to define its main stages in the context of the evolution of Ukrainian grammatical terminology in general. It was found that during all periods of the functioning of the Ukrainian language a need for its normalization was appeared, there were problems in the study of language phenomena, which required a clear definition, identical understanding of linguistic concepts, the development and systematization of their terminological names, and most importantly – codification and their implementation in scientific practice. It was formed in the analyzed grammars until the beginning of the XX-th century terminology is a logical step in the history of the development of modern Ukrainian word-formation terminology. It has been proved that these powerful attempts were the first steps towards the establishment of the Ukrainian word process as a separate linguistic branch and laid the foundation for the formation of a terminological word-formation system.The article gives a detailed analysis of the complex process of the Ukrainian linguistic terminology development, including the word creative, based on the analyzed period bilateralism: on the one hand, was subordinated to colloquial language basis, and on the other – was supposed to streamline the achievements of predecessors and normalization and codification vocabulary. It was traced that the leading trend in the termination of this period is the formation of distinctive Ukrainian terminology, however, the authors consistently imitated other language patterns, applied European ideas of historical comparative linguistics, used the heritage of Ukrainian grammarians of the past, involved in the grammatical description of works of contemporary literature, enriched the experience of predecessors by their own ideas.

Are There Analytical Adjectives in Russian?


 
 
 In the scholarly literature there has been a discussion on whether modern Russian is developing more analytical tendencies, with special attention to new nominal compounds such as VIP-zal 'VIP lounge', veb- stranica ‘web page’. Traditionally, such units are described in terms of “analytical adjectives”, which covers all nominal non-inflectional units related to a head noun (Panov 1960, 1971). The data analyzed in this article suggest that what has previously been described as “analytical adjectives” constitutes at least three different patterns: 1) nominal [N[N]] compounds that roughly represent two groups: type (a) where the first component (modifier) should be a loan word (units like internet, veb, top, etc., the head noun of such compounds can be of Russian origin); type (b) where the second component (head noun) tends to be a loan word, whereas the modifier can be of Russian origin (this type is characteristic of names and titles like Gorbačev-fond ‘The Gorbachev foundation’) 2) appositions that mostly include abbreviations and names of styles and can be used both pre-positionally and post-positionally to the head noun (units like VIP); 3) a contracted pattern (potential stump compounds, or blends, like internacional-sem’ja from the inflectional adjective internacional’nyj ‘international’ and the noun semja ‘family’). The third pattern was productive in Soviet discourse (cf. zapčasti from zap[asnyje] ‘replacement’ časti ‘parts’) and seems to be regaining productivity. The presence of these three patterns affects not only the system of Russian word-formation but also the Russian grammatical system in general, since it evokes various intermediate cases between adjectives and compounding elements. We present a very general overview of the aforementioned patterns based on the data from a corpus study, an Internet study and a linguistic experiment.
 
 

Word-building science in Russia in the XXI century

The article presents a review of scientific papers on word-formation and morphemics written in the beginning of the XXI century. Various aspects of modern word-formation science are examined: the study of morphemic and word-formation systems (derivational affixes, derived words, derivational types, methods of derivation, word-building nests) in structural-semantic, synchronic-diachronic, and dynamic aspects. Particular attention is paid to neology, which studies neologisms in socio-cultural, linguo-culturological and linguo-pragmatic aspects.

Eastern Podillia Names of traditional Construction in All Ukrainian background

The article defines the isoglosses that cover Eastern Podillia dialects and proceeds in three accents of the Ukrainian language (Ukrainian ‘narichiia’); the isoglosses that cover Eastern Podillia dialects and proceeds in other dialects of South-Western accent (Ukrainian ‘narichiia’); the isoglosses that cover Eastern Podillia dialects and proceeds in dialects of Polisiia accent (Ukrainian ‘narichiia’); the isoglosses that cover Eastern Podillia dialects and proceeds in dialects of South-Eastern accent (Ukrainian ‘narichiia’); the isoglosses that cover Eastern Podillia dialects and proceeds in dialects of South-Western accents (Ukrainian ‘narichiia’); the isoglosses that cover Eastern Podillia dialects and proceeds in dialects of South-Western and Polisiia accents (Ukrainian ‘narichiia’).The article deals with the lexico-semantic group on the designation of the word-building paradigm of the East Podillya dialects building names. The word-building variety and inner potential of the thematic group has been investigated, words that are heterogeneous in ways of creation have been highlighted. It was defined the word-formation connection and the difference of the studied range with the word-formation system of the literary language.The implemented structural and semantic analysis showed that the thematic group of the traditional construction is an independent thematic complex, an extensive and multifaceted system, which includes several lexico-semantic groups and differs in peculiar structural organization, specificity of the relationships between units of different lexico-semantic groups.It has been found that the general tendency of the lexemes spatial location denoting the traditional construction is the continuity of the area of the East Podillya dialects with mosaic or insular inclusions and insular mosaic. A large number of insular areas are concentrated in the north and south of the core part of an investigated dialects.The lexical parallels of the East Podillya traditional construction names have been studied, the East Podillya narrow and local isogloss with a focus on their specific features have been identified and described.Podillya dialect is one of the least investigated among the dialectical zones of the Ukrainian continuum. On the basis of vocabulary the modern boundaries has been outlined in such works as: H. Martynova, T. Tyshchenko (Podillya and Mid-upper Dnieper Area), T. Shevchenko (Podillya Steppe border), N. Sheremeta (South Volyn Podillya Border), O. Zhvava (Podillya Bukovinsky Transdniestrian border). The internal division of the Podillya dialect taking into account the lexical-semantic, phonetic, morphological features was carried out in such dissertations: I. Gorofyanyuk, G. Kraievska (the Central Podillya dialects), N. Kovalenko, A. Medinsky (West Podillya dialects), H. Berezovska (East Podillya dialects).