ADVERB OF DEGREE IN RUSSIAN DIALECTS OF AMUR REGION

Abstract

The paper considers the systematization of degree adverbs in Russian dialects. The semantic classification of adverbs in the Russian language, as well as in dialectological studies, is conceptually and terminologically heterogeneous. The reason is that concepts of the class of adverbs in the theory of grammar are rather contradictory. The novelty of this study is that it analyzes an almost uninvestigated class of words from the group of dialects of secondary formation. The material for the study was the corpus of adverbial vocabulary extracted from The Dictionary of Russian Dialects of the Amur River Region. The study is based on descriptive-analytical, structural-semantic, and comparative methods and describes a group of adverbs with a general meaning of the degree. The authors reveal the dialectical features of degree adverbs that function in the Russian dialects of the Amur River Region as compared to lexical units from other dialect groups, as well as literary analogs. The relations of equivalence and differentiation are established for some lexical units. The authors propose semantic and motivational classifications of this group of adverbial dialecticisms, paying attention to the specifics of the compatibility of degree adverbs and their synonymy.