"Furt to jde, pořat, nekončivá se to…" O vývojových inovacích v českých nářečních varietách v Rusku

• Authors: Sergej S. Skorvid

Title variants

EN

"It goes on all the time and does not stop…" On the evolutionary innovations in Czech dialects in Russia

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to introduce Czech immigrants’ dialects spoken in several villages in the Northern Caucasus and Western Siberia, compared to those still remaining in the Ukraine. All of the examined dialects appeared as a result of different waves of Czech rural migration at the end of the 1860s and at the start of the 20th century. Up to the present day they show surprisingly good preservation of their original dialectal systems, and at the same time they have been strongly influenced by their language surroundings. In some aspects of their systems, however, certain innovations are observed. The author traces the specific development of the verb imperfectivation with the non-iterative suffix -va- (končívat) and of noun animacy (nominative and accusative plural ďedečki), typical of all these dialects. In addition, the regionally limited spread of the ending -oj in the locative singular of inanimate nouns (v Novoros’ijskoj) and of the idiolectal purpose conjunction aďbi is taken into consideration. Despite the fact that we are dealing with disappearing dialects, those innovations give evidence of a relatively high linguistic creativity of their speakers, stabilized as varietal innovations.

Keywords

CS

české komunity v Rusku; jazykový kontakt; konzervatismus a inovace v nářečích; severovýchodo- a jihozápadočeská nářeční skupina; zemědělská migrace

EN

Czech communities in Russia; dialectal conservatism and innovations; language contact; Northeastern and Southwestern Czech dialectal zones; rural migration

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 104
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 311-321
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sergej S. Skorvid

• Naše řeč, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic