Tolstaya, S. M. NOTHERN RUSSIAN DIALECTS AGAINST THE COMMON SLAVIC BACKGROUND // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2018. No 6 (175). DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2018.210


Linguistics

NOTHERN RUSSIAN DIALECTS AGAINST THE COMMON SLAVIC BACKGROUND

Tolstaya
S. M. 		Институт славяноведения РАН
Keywords:
northern Russian dialects
Slavic languages
linguistic geography
ethnogenesis
substrate
vocabulary
toponymy
culture areas		 Summary: The Common Slavic value of the Northern Russian dialects is revealed from the fact that the principal marks that set these dialects in opposition to the other dialect groups of Russian language (“okanie”, reflex of jat’, closed o, the explosive g, “cokanie”, postpositive pronoun-member, etc.) constitute the indicators, which integrate them into the other Slavic languages. That gave many scientists reason to consider them as a separate East Slavic language idiom, along with the South Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian. At the present time the question of the internal differentiation of the Northern Russian dialects and their relations with other Russian and other Slavic dialects has not yet been brought forward by the linguogeography, although for the history of the Russian language and the typology of the dialect areas of Slavia it is of paramount importance. The study of vocabulary is of particular importance. It should be not just about turning to the "meaningful" and culturally relevant elements of the language (vocabulary, toponomastics, phraseology), but also to the layers of culture that stand behind them, i.e. to the forms, types and genres of traditional spiritual and material culture, which are equally "dialect", according to N. I. Tolstoy, as well as language, and therefore they equally need geographical studying and comparative researching. The elements of traditional culture (ritual forms, beliefs, mythological imagery, patterns of behavior, folklore texts) indicate deep-seated ethno-genetic processes that led to the known types of the language and cultural traditions quite the same way as the language elements do.



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