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The dynamics of the development of Ruthenian dialects in Slovakia and Ukraine as exemplified by prepositions
Vašíček, Michal
This article deals with the dynamics of the vocabulary of Ruthenian dialects in two regions of two states – eastern Slovakia and Transcarpathia in Ukraine. It focuses on prepositions as well as conjunctions and particles, which are function words with a high frequency of occurrence. The analysis is based on dialectal material obtained during our own field research, carried out since 2011 in this area, specifically in the municipalities of Ubľa and Malyj Bereznyj, lying close to the Slovak-Ukrainian state border. Here, until World War II closely related Ruthenian dialects had been evolving in sociolinguistically identical conditions. But after World War II, they were separated by the Czechoslovak-Soviet border and came under the influence of different literary languages – Slovak, on the one side, and Ukrainian and Russian on the other. Due to levelling processes oriented to different literary languages, the originally closely related dialects have considerably diverged from each other. Comparing the current material with older dialectal materials, we will try to document more recent influences of literary languages on the development of Ruthenian dialects.\n
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