Baltarusių tarmės po prostu leksiniai ir semantiniai lituanizmai Pietryčių Lietuvoje

Language change in Southeastern Lithuania over two or three generations has led to closemutual relations between languages, reflected in the lexicon. People living in Southeastern Lithuanianborderland are multilingual – they generally use two languages in everyday life, and, in certain situations – even three or four languages: Polish, Belarusian, Lithuanian, and Russian. The object of thestudy is the areas of the Lithuanian Language Atlas 11 points of Šalčininkai District Municipality,where the Belarusian dialect called po prostu is used. The study aims to identify and study the lexicaland semantic Lithuanianisms used in the current Belarusian dialect po prostu. The study’s main goalis to identify and group Lithuanianisms recorded in the living Belarusian language, with the objectiveof revealing their current meaning: the main one, which is widespread throughout the region, and thesecondary (new, adjacent) one, characteristic only of the studied area or residential area. The majority of the recorded Lithuanianisms are widespread throughout the Lithuanian and Belarusianlinguistic borderland and are a living witness confirming the Lithuanian substratum of the current dialects of those territories. Most of the Lithuanianisms have preserved their original meaning, however,differences in the semantics of these words have been recorded. Three groups of Lithuanianisms havebeen distinguished: 1) Lithuanianisms which have preserved their original meaning, have establishedthemselves throughout the entire region, and were previously actively used; 2) Lithuanianisms usedin individual areas, the main meaning of which has narrowed, changed, or has been adopted from theBelarusian language; 3) coincidences and situationally (repeatedly) used Lithuanianisms, which shouldbe assessed as cases of code-switching.