Del Gaudio Salvatore. An Introduction to Ukrainian Dialectology

Berlin: Peter Lang, 2018. — 130 p. — (Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 94) — ISBN-10: 3631738129; ISBN-13: 978-3631738122.The book intends to render available to a wide range of students of Slavic languages, and particularly of Ukrainian, an outline of Ukrainian dialectology. The author presents the fascinating world of geographical variation of contemporary Ukrainian to all students of Slavic languages. A basic knowledge of Ukrainian dialects is likewise important to complete the theoretical and practical background of a Slavist, especially if focusing on Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian. It is also a valuable aid to a better understanding of diachronic and synchronic language processes, e.g. the Ukrainian-Russian mixed speech «suržyk».ContentsPreface
Introductory remarks
The Ukrainian languageDialectology: basic conceptsDialectology as a discipline
Studies on Ukrainian dialects
Conceptual-terminological peculiarities of Ukrainian dialectology
Research aims and value of Ukrainian dialectology
Research methods in Ukrainian dialectology
Transcription of Ukrainian dialectsClassification of Ukrainian dialectsA historic outline
The Ukrainian dialectal territoryDialectal macro-areasNorthern/Polissian Ukrainian dialects
Generalized phonetic characteristics of Polissian dialects
Eastern Polissian dialects
Central Polissian dialects
Western Polissian dialects
South-western dialects
Generalized features of South-western dialectsSouth-eastern dialectsGeneralized features of South-eastern dialectsCentral Dnipro (Cherkasy - Poltava) dialects
Sloboda dialects
Steppe dialectsTopical issues in Ukrainian dialectologyRegional varieties, dialects and forms of mixed speech “Surzyk”
Transcarpathian dialects and the question of “Rusyn”
Dialectology and sociolinguistics in Ukrainian studiesGlossary
Bibliography
Table of maps
Short summary in Ukrainian