DYNAMIC DIALEKTAL PHONETIC AND MORPHOLGICAL PROCESSES IN IVAN FRANKO’S MICROTEXTX “GALICIAN-RUTHENIAN FOLK BYWORDS” RECORDED AT HUTSULSHCHYNA AND POKUTTIA

Abstract

In modern philology, studies based on textual analysis of bywords taken from Ivan Franko’sfamous work “Galician-Ruthenian folk bywords” occupy a prominent place. M. Paziakstates, “Franko’s research takes an important place in the culture, it is both the result of work of previous scientists and the basis on which new scientifi c research will grow promoting further revival ofUkrainian people and culture” Ivan Franko’s microtexts “Galician-Ruthenian folk bywords” have already been the object of linguistic studies in which Boyko dialect language peculiarities have been found. However, in the preface to the third volume the author states that bywords were recordedat 477 districts of eastern Galicia and Bukovina. According to our calculations, Ivan Franko in ethnic regions of Pokuttia and Hutsulshchyna collected the second largest bywords that can be found in a book. The subject of our research is phonetic and morphological features of hutsul-pokuttian dialects, their static and dynamic characteristics, which are shown in Ivan Franko’s paremias that were written down more than 100 years ago. Thus, this is the fi rst time that the above-mentioned bywords have been under study and this fact enhances the actuality and scientifi c novelty of our work. Among hutsul phonetic features described in the book the most successively is shown the usage of a vowel [е] which is close to [и] after [j] in place of Slavic [а] in a word [йик]. Similarly, there was described the softness of proto-slavic sibilants [ч’], [ж’], [ш’], which is used nowadays. In addition, among hutsul and pokuttia bywords we can notice the pronunciation of an unstressed sound [и] in place of old Ukrainian. Almost consistently, the pronunciation of the sound [і] in the prefi x. In general, there was an analysis of 14 phonetic features. As to peculiarities of consonantism, we can notice the hardening of the fi nal consonant [ц] in a suffi x - цький, hard pronunciation of [р] both in a middle and at the end of the word. This is a peculiar feature of other galician dialects. Sometimes we can fi nd such things as prosthesis and epenthesis that is the covering of the vowel at the beginning or in the middle of a word. In addition to phonetic features, paremias are rich inarchaic morphological and grammatical features of studied dialects. Successively referred historical ending- и in genitive, dative andlocative cases of a noun of the third class; in dative and locative cases of a noun of the fi rst and the second class. Historical endings can be observed in other cases. In paremias texts, one can fi nd galician forms of adjectives, pronouns, adverbs. However, the most signifi cant part is given to verbs. We can come across the hard pronunciation of the fi nal –и in the 3d person singular of the second conjugation and in the 3d person plural of the fi rst and the second conjugations. There is also preservation of old Ukrainian form of the past tense (the so-called perfect); archaic analytical forms of the future tense with the prepositive.