DO-VERBS IN THE DIALECTS OF THE ARKHANGELSK REGION: SEMANTICS AND FUNCTIONING

The article discusses features of functioning of verbs with prefix do- and suffix –sya in spoken dialects. This type of word-formation is productive not in the dialects only, it also presents in the literary language, particularly in spoken form, as well as in common parlance in the meaning ‘to bring themselves into unpleasant consequences by intense action, called by the motivating verb’. The combination of the prefix do- with ‘before that’, ‘to what’ is a factor in the formation of such semantics. Variability of the verbal semantics, resulted from the curtailment of the original structure, common to the literary language and dialects, is represented in the dialects. A negative result of prolonged and / or intense action may not have the verbal expression, which is a significant difference from the literary language. A formal simplification of the original structure is accompanied by a semantic condensation of the verbal word. The use of combinations of ‘before that’ and ‘to what’ with prefixless verbs, as well as with verbs with other prefixes — ‘tired to’, ‘smeared to’ and with adverbs and adjectives — ‘ground dry to’, also represented in the dialects, unites them with the adverbs ‘very high extent’, ‘much’, ‘long’.