The Database of the Slavic Linguistic Atlas and the Ukrainian Dialectal Space

P.Yu. Hrytsenko
Dr. Sci.(Philol.), Professor, Director Institute of the Ukrainian Language of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Institute of the Ukrainian Language of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Hrushevskyi St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine
Е- mail: hrytsenko_pavlo@ukr.net

H.S. Kobyrynka
PhD in Philology, Senior researcher of the Department of Dialectology, Institute of the Ukrainian Language of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Hrushevskyi St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine
Е-mail: kobyrynka2008@ukr.net

M.M. Tkachuk
PhD in Philology, Research Scientist of the Department of Dialectology, Institute of the Ukrainian Language of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Hrushevskyi St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine
Е-mail: tkachuk_maryna@ukr.net

Heading: Researches
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The central purpose of the Slavic Linguistic Atlas (OLA), the fundamental multilingual linguogeographical project, is the representation of modern differentiation of the Slavic languages as a consequence of their development from proto-Slavic state to nowadays. As a result of this project, the massive comparable dialectal data from 857 settlements of the Slavic world was collected by the special questionnaire (3 454 questions) for the first time. Such an empirical basis allows to re-examine, in a new way, the contemporary structure of the Slavic languages, their genesis, stages and directions of their evolution.

The dialectal records are reposited at various scientific centers of the Slavic countries, but not yet available as a comprehensive information fund.

A new big task in the framework of the project is to make accessible to a wide range of linguists the entire corpus of language data formed using OLA and at the same time make its processing possible by computer scientists. The implementation of this project provides for the digitalization of OLA materials (already mapped and published in the atlas, as well as not yet presented on linguistic maps) in a single format. As a result, a register of all structural elements of Slavic dialects will be created; the sets of comparable linguistic units ‒ representatives of linguistic phenomena in the Slavic continuum ‒ will be formed; it will become possible to identify geographical (spatial) parameters and quantitative indicators of fixation in Slavic dialects for each language unit.

The database will allow to more clearly determine the language differentiation of Slavia, types of language areas. Still not enough delineated isoglosses of inter-Slavic contacts and interinfluences of different times will become more sharply defined; their varieties and spatial configurations, types of intensity (character of lingual content) of interdialectal relations will be determined. Researchers will receive lists of exclusive and local linguistic units, which will also expand the range of partial studies against the background of other sources of language information, for their verification and explanation of their genesis.

Operating by structural, spatial and quantitative parameters of a large number of dialectal units in the context of the entire Slavic continuum is a prerequisite for a new generalized characteristic of this language space, a qualitatively new description of each Slavic dialect, including Ukrainian dialects and the whole idiom at the present time and in retrospect.

The database of the Slavic Linguistic Atlas will enhance the spatial paradigm of studying of the Slavic language continuum.

Keywords: dialectal database, Slavic Linguistic Atlas, Slavic dialects, language differentiation, language areas.

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