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Between Three Languages, Dialects and Forms of Mixed Speech: Dialect and Language Contacts in Ukrainian-Belarusian Transitional Area

  • Salvatore Del Gaudio

The territory roughly delimitated by the rivers Dnipro, Sož and Desna, geo-politically set between Ukraine, Belarus’ and not far from the Russian Federation, presents a particularly interesting language situation. In this geo-dialectal “triangle” coexist and interact local dialects – also known as Ukrainian-Belarusian ‘transitional’ dialects – three standard languages (i.e. Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian), and various forms of language mix. In this article we primarily intend to examine some fundamental issues related to dialectal contact and language distribution typical of this border area.

  • Keywords:
  • Ukrainian-Belarusian Transitional Dialects,
  • Dialect / Language Contact,
  • East Slavic Dialectology,
  • Sociolinguistics,
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Salvatore Del Gaudio

Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine - ORCID: 0000-0002-8441-749X

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Chapter Title

Between Three Languages, Dialects and Forms of Mixed Speech: Dialect and Language Contacts in Ukrainian-Belarusian Transitional Area

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Salvatore Del Gaudio

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English

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10.36253/978-88-6453-723-8.09

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2018

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Contributi italiani al XVI Congresso Internazionale degli Slavisti

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(Belgrado 20-27 agosto 2018)

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Maria Chiara Ferro, Laura Salmon, Giorgio Ziffer

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2018

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