Болгарская диалектология на службе этнолингвистики

Abstract

Ethnolinguistic studies are closely related to linguogeography. They use mapping methods and the results of mapping dialect phenomena. Therefore, not only dialectological studies complement ethnolinguistic ones, but also ethnolinguistic ones can verify and supplement dialect data. The tasks of ethnolinguistic research differ. The role of auxiliary dialect information depends on the research objectives. Thus, dialectological information is very important in the study of resettlement traditions. In turn, an ethnolinguistic survey of traditional culture in such localities can con firm their dialect af filiation. The presence of a dialect atlas makes it possible to con firm the areal characteristics of the dialect of the studied tradition (especially when information about the resettlement has not been preserved and has been erased from the memory of the population over the 200-year period of stay in another country). Comparing these characteristics with the collected linguistic and cultural data, it is possible to separate the facts peculiar to the primordial archaic tradition from the later layers and interference phenomena. Broader generalizations can be reached in the ethnolinguistic survey of settlements located in the zone of transitional or mixed dialects. Dialect material also helps in solving lexicographic tasks, namely the tasks of compiling ethnolinguistic dictionaries.