FROM OBSERVATIONS OVER DIALECTAL VOCABULARY AND SYNTAX

The article observes a range of features in the vocabulary and syntax of the Archangelsk dialects. The first part is devoted to the preposition ‘о’ presenting analysis of its semantics and government. A structure of meanings for this preposition was created including the standard Russian and dialectal meanings. It consists of 11 units, among the are 10 meanings for ‘location’, 7 meanings for ‘time’, the meanings for ‘existence of something’, ‘possession of something’, ‘characteristics of something or somebody according to a property’, ‘manner or an instrument of implementing an action’, ‘cause, aim of correspondence to something’, ‘relation to something’ etc. Variablity of case government are observed almost in all cases. Thus, in the meaning of ‘a location where something is being done nearby’ the preposition ‘о’ governs the accusative, the locative or the genitive case. As long as syntax remains to be the least studied area in the Russian dialectology, the second part of the article analyses the simple two-member sentences with adverbial predicates, a syntactic construction which has not been described by the researchers as yet.