How does prepositional use vary in Ukrainian dialects

The prepositional use in Ukrainian dialects varies and reflects regional linguistic features. Dialectal studies, such as those on Middle Dnieper dialects, show differences between central and peripheral dialects in the functions of original prepositions. For example, in Middle Dnieper dialects, the preposition “в (у)” ranks high in expressing objective, spatial, temporal, logical, attributive, and predicative semantic-syntactic relations. Additionally, there are synonymous case constructions with prepositions that depend on the subject expression, distinctive to this dialect group.

In dialects such as those of Bukovyna (Yuzhynets village), prepositional-noun constructions show peculiarities that differ from the literary language and other dialects. This includes morphological and syntactic features unique to the dialect with variations in noun parts of speech, pronouns, and adverbs connected with prepositions.

Generally, Ukrainian dialects maintain a core set of prepositions but exhibit variation in their use, forms, and syntactic constructions. This variation can be in the choice of cases governed by prepositions, the substitution of synonymous prepositional phrases, and the integration of adverbial equivalents with prepositional-case forms like “без” (without + genitive), “з” (with + instrumental), and “у (в)” (in + local case).

Thus, Ukrainian dialects show both preservation of a common set of prepositions and functional divergence that marks regional speech communities through specialized prepositional constructs and case usages. ^{1, 2, 3}

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