The epistolary of D. I. Yavornitsky as a reflection of development of the Ukrainian language in Katerinoslav region

Abstract

Vocabulary of epistolary texts of the end of the 19^th – the beginning of the 20^th century is analyzed in the article on the material of the epistolary heritage of D.I.Yavornitsky and his correspondents, namely common lexis, lexical and semantic characteristics of dialect lexis, vulgarisms, the use of borrowed words and book vocabulary, particularly Old Church Slavonic words.