East Podillya Dialect in the Collections of Olha Pavlenko "Malvy Na Prychelku" and "Whom God Loves"

The article analyses the typical East Podillya dialect features represented in the collections of the contemporary Ukrainian writer Olha Pavlenko "Malvy na prychelku" and "Whom God Loves". It is noted that, unlike other writers who mainly use only lexical dialectal elements in their works, Olha Pavlenko does not limit herself to the lexical level, but also introduces words that demonstrate phonetic and morphological features of the Eastern Podillya dialects into the canvas of the literary text. In particular, the disappearance of the correlation |р| : |р'| correlation, dislocation of т' in verb forms, prototic consonants г, й before vowels о, и, epenthetic consonants, compounds мн', вл' instead of мй, вй, realisation of the phoneme |ф| by the sound combination хв, truncation of word bases or engthening of foreign language bases, etc. The accentuation peculiarities of the Eastern Podillya dialects are traced in the rhyming texts included in the stories of the collections. Among the morphological features of the East Podillya dialects are the remnants of the dual number forms in nouns, the lack of differentiation of feminine and masculine nouns of the first and second cases in the singular ablative into hard, soft and mixed groups, the formation of degrees of comparison of adjectives with the help of suffixes -енн-, -езн-, -ч-, -ецьк-, adverbs of adjectival origin - with the suffix -ч-, the absence of consonant alternation in verbal personal forms, the formation of passive participles and impersonal verbs with the suffix -ян-, the use of numerals єден and штири, etc. The article emphasises that the author uses dialect words only in the speech of the characters. It is concluded that the lexemes that demonstrate the East Podillya dialect features are a linguistic means of creating a special colour of the stories from Olha Pavlenko's collections, convey the expression of the characters' speech and are stylistically motivated.