About dialectical vocabulary of the Komi-Permyak language
Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: vocabulary of any language presents quite a complex phenomenon. This complexity is caused by a number of factors among which the territorial variability of vocabulary plays the important role. The basis of vocabulary of the Komi-Permyak language, as in any other language, is formed by common vocabulary. These are words that are not restricted to a specific distribution area, they are used everywhere. They are opposed to dialectical lexical units – words functioning on a specific territory and not extending beyond a geographically limited region. The presented article is devoted to the analysis of dialectical vocabulary of the Komi-Permyak language.
Objective: to study dialectical vocabulary of the Komi-Permyak language and to reveal its components.
Research materials: dialectical vocabulary of the Northern and Southern subdialects of the Komi-Permyak language collected and detailed by the author during dialectological field trips to the areas, where the Komi- Permyaks live, as well as data presented in all available printed sources. The author’s card file contain about 2000 dialect units (lexical and semantic).
Results and novelty of the research: the article is the first experience of systematic description of dialectical vocabulary of the Komi-Permyak language. The analysis of dialect vocabulary and the disclosure of the synchronous lexical picture contributed to the identification of the main components of the Komi-Permyak regional speech. The following groups are distinguished as part of the dialect vocabulary of the Komi-Permyak language: 1) native words and expressions that originated in the proto-linguistic periods, but they were lost by most of the Komi-Permyak dialects; 2) words that have space and genetic origin, i. e. that they appeared in the common Permian or common Komi periods, but they are not widely distributed; 3) own innovations; 4) words that appeared as a result of contacts with neighboring nations.
Key words: Komi language, Komi-Permyak language, lexicon, dialectology, vocabulary, lexical unit, isogloss.
For citation: Fedoseeva E. N. About dialectical vocabulary of the Komi-Permyak language // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2020; 10 (3): 545–554.
