Aspects of the Literarization of Moldavian Dialectal Texts

Abstract

Given the importance of dialectal texts both for research in the field of linguistics and for those in other branches of science, it is useful to render them not only in phonetic transcription, but also in literarized form, close to the literary one. This way of presentation makes them accessible to nonspecialists as well. Literarization involves giving up dialectal peculiarities typical of more or less extensive geographical areas, due to regular sound changes, but keeping those that individualize the local idioms at phonetic, morphological and lexical level. The main solution for overcoming the difficulties of understanding the texts is glossing specific dialectal elements.