CONJUNCTIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY IN THE MIDUPPERDNIEPER PATOIS

Abstract

Introduction. The article analyses the system of in conjunctions of subjectivity the MidUpperDnieper patois, with representing diverse conjunctions and revealing their specificity in spatial projection as well as their functioning in practical speaking.
The methods. The article employs principal scientific methods for analysis and synthesis, alongside with the linguistic ones: descriptive, modelling and those of contextual and areological analysis.
The purpose. The purpose of the article is to analyze the system of subjective conjunctions in the MidUpperDnieper patois, to represent their diversity and their specificity in spatial projection as well as their functioning in practical speaking.
Results. As the text centric approach was employed to subjective conjunctions research, their diversity, variations and interceptive tendency for supporting various subjective conjunctions and semantic syntactical relations in context in various groups of the MidUpperDnieper patois were given an originally profound description, and both their typical and specific features were realized.
Originality. The system of subjective conjunctions is originally presented as a non-divided entity. It is as well analyzed in dialectal texts through specificity of their functioning in the MidUpperDnieper patois. That is revealed in the following features such as conjunction repetition used for “adding” sentence components and its elements as the proof of authentic dialectal speech, their multi-functioning in employing various types of subjective conjunctive relations. Those are of connecting, contrasting, comparing, joining, and various semantic syntactical relations, broader variety of conjunctions for showing the comparing relations, reduction and substitution of components of repeated and doubled conjunctions.
Conclusion. Analyzing subjective conjunctions in practical speech texts enabled concise studying the system of these units in the MidUpperDnieper territory, revealing their specific elements, defining special conjunction functioning in practical speech in spatial projection. It is proved, that the diversity of subjective conjunctions in the texts under consideration includes the old language units. They are less complete when compared to the literary standards, though more diverse due to employing the local conjunctions. Among these there are contrasting conjunctions ну, так (дак), comparing conjunctions ну…то and phonetic variety of conjunctions та (да), та й (да й), так (дак), та…то (да…до), так…то (дак…то), а|ле (а|л˙е, а|ли, ал˙и) and the like. Their presence results in dialectal differentiation of texts under consideration in patois oppositions northern: central and western: central.