XXXIX All-Russian Dialectological Meeting. Lexical Atlas of the Russian Folk Dialects – 2023

Abstract

The chronicle is devoted to the conference “XXXIX All-Russian Dialectological Meeting «Lexical Atlas of the Russian Folk Dialects – 2023»” which annually takes place in Saint Petersburg and this time was held on January 30–31, 2023. The questions of the Russian dialect lexicology, lexicography and linguistic geography were mainly discussed. These disciplines are concerned with “Lexical Atlas of the Russian Folk Dialects” compiling which has been done by the Institute of Slavic Studies RAS, the Institute of Linguistic Studies RAS and leading universities of Russian Federation. Concrete dialect lexical characteristics as well as features of the Russian dialects in general were considered. Moreover, general problems of linguistic geography and dialect lexicography were analyzed, including the studies on “Lexical Atlas of the Russian Folk Dialects” material. Also some papers dealt with toponymy, antroponymy, etymology, onomastics, grammar, linguistic folklore studies and ethnolinguistics. Some presentations were devoted to the study of the Russian dialect lexicon against the Slavic background. Some linguistic geography and dialect lexicography aspects were shown on the material of non-Slavic languages, in particular, Komi-Permyak. A great number of scientists, including young researchers, from more than twenty Russian cities took part in the conference. Presented papers will be published in the annual volume “Lexical Atlas of the Russian Folk Dialects. Materials and Studies” by the Institute of Linguistic Studies RAS, edited by S.A. Myznikov. As a result of the conference there was made a decision to support and encourage the Atlas authors and to intensify their work on maps and research.