ACCENTUATION OF BORROWED ADJECTIVES FOUND IN THE RUSSIAN DIALECT USED BY OLD BELIEVERS LIVING IN POLAND

The Polish language strongly influences the Russian dialect of Old Believers living in Suwałki-August region of Poland at all linguistic levels, including phonetic, lexical, morphological and syntactic ones. The morphological system falls under this influence less than others do. Many Pskov dialectal features are still preserved in the Old Believers’ speech. The influence of the Polish language is most noticeable in the vocabulary, in which a large number of borrowings can be noted. The lexical stock of the Old Believers is enriched with the names of new elements in the surrounding reality (vocabulary associated with administration, education, medical care, agriculture, and other spheres of life). In the Russian dialect of the Old Believers, a free and mobile stress is firmly held. In most cases, this also applies to borrowings from the Polish language. In the dialect discussed, accentuation variants are observed not only in nouns but also in adjectives. The existence of variants in accentuation is widespread in other Russian dialects. The article analyses the accentuation of adjectives borrowed from Polish. The author comes to the conclusion that the majority of borrowings from the Polish language follow the morphonological rule of stress in Russian; however, there are also borrowings that use the penultimate stress adapted from Polish.