ALL-RUSSIAN AND REGIONAL ELEMENTS IN COLLOQUIAL VOCABULARY OF ХVIII CENTURY (BASED ON RECORDS FROM ТRANSBAJKALIJE)


2014. № 3 (3), 273-292

Buryat State University

Abstract:

The article raises the problem of identifying regional and dialect words in the Russian language of the XVIII century. In this regard, the principles and methods for establishing geographically limited lexical means of the historical period are studied. Particular attention is paid to the method of reconstruction of the original state of the secondary dialect, which was deeply developed by V.V. Palagina. Considering the provisions of the Tomsk scientist and a number of other researchers the author offers his own interpretation of some methods in identifying regional words in colloquial idioms, functioning in the territory of a late settlement. The article emphasizes the importance of respecting the research principle of historicism, i.e. regularly taking into account vocabulary's historical dynamics, which determines the change of status of the all-Russian as well as regional words. Based on this the nature of the secondary dialectisims in the dialects of Eastern Siberia is described more in detail. The colloquial vocabulary, which is presented in the Transbaikalian's written business language of the XVIII-th c., is regarded due to application of principles of the complex identification of regional and dialect words. It was revealed that it contains genetically heterogeneous groups of regionalisms. In this connection, the lexical-semantic groups of words is determined, among which two types of regionalisms exist: a) regionalisms of northern Russian origin and b) regionalisms - local (autochthonous) loan words.