“DICTIONARY OF RUSSIAN DIALECTS”: SOME PROBLEMS OF THE SEMANTIC DESCRIPTION

«Dictionary of Russian Dialects» is the dictionary of a differential type. It includes only dialect words and meanings. Dialectal phraseology, a variety of terminological vocabulary, archaisms and even elements of argo find their place in it, if they enter the dialectal lexical system, they have local limitations and are not known in the literary language. The differential principle extends to the structure of the word.

The released issues of the «Dictionary of Russian Dialects» are 3809 units, which have no interpretation, and the meaning appears in the form of a question mark -Znach? In this article we offer an overview of these materials by proposing some solutions for the reconstruction of semantics. propose

In view of the various difficulties in the semantic analysis of lexical data in the course of their lexicographic representation, one of the effective tools for verification of interpretation can be an etymological analysis combined with an areal one. Moreover, the experience of studying borrowed and substrate data of the Finno-Ugric search shows good results.