Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to introduce a typology of immigrant Slavic dialects
spoken in the Russian Federation. The paper deals with two Czech and two
Polish dialects located in the Northern Caucasus and in Siberia and with the
West Ukrainian patois of Siberian Hollanders. The author outlines primarily the
in ternal linguistic typology of those patois, including a comparative structural
analysis. All of the dialects examined here show good preservation of their original
dialectal systems and, at the same time, they have been strongly influenced
by their language surroundings, first and foremost by regional varieties of Russian.
In some aspects of their systems, however, certain developments indi cate
evidence of the relatively high vitality of these patois.
