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К ВОПРОСУ ОБ ОСОБОМ ВАРИАНТЕ РУССКОГО ЯЗЫКА В Г. СЕВАСТОПОЛЕ Ситько Ю.Л.Московский государственный университет (филиал в г. Севастополе) 299001, г. Севастополь, ул. Героев Севастополя, 7, Российская Федерация Аннотация. Статья посвящена рассмотрению проблемы функционирования в Крыму (кон-кретно -в г. Севастополе) особого варианта русского языка. Автор статьи ставит целью рассмотрение языковой ситуации и опирается на данные обследования речи севасто-польцев, которое осуществляется методом мониторинга речевых особенностей (фоне-тический, словообразовательный уровень и т. д.) на протяжении нескольких лет. Итоги наблюдений позволили прийти к выводу, что особенности использования русского язы-ка в речи севастопольцев не дают оснований говорить о функционировании в Крыму, в частности в г. Севастополе какого-либо особого варианта русского языка. Вместе с тем фиксируются отдельные отклонения от литературной нормы, свойственные говорам юга России, которые представляются в статье.Ключевые слова: русский язык, городское просторечие, койне, вариант национального языка, литературная норма. ON THE QUESTION OF A SPECIAL VARIANT OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN SEVASTOPOL Y. SitkoLomonosov Moscow State University (Branch in Sevastopol) 7, Geroev Sevastopolya st., Sevastopol, 299001, Russian Federation Abstract. The article discusses the issue of a variant of the Russian language functioning in Sevastopol. The author takes on the objective to study the language situation and relies on the Sevastopol speech data produced by years long monitoring of the speech features (phonetic, word-forming levels, etc.). The concludes is made that the findings prove the absence of a certain variant of the Russian language in Crimea and Sevastopol. However, there are some deviations from the literary norm that are characteristic for the sub-dialects of southern Russia.

The article is devoted to the issue of a certain variant of the Russian language functioning in Sevastopol and Crimea. It provides findings of the study, which took several years, and involved examination of the speech of Sevastopol residents. On the basis of comparing the local speech with some other southern Russian vernacular the main features of the speech of Sevastopol residents are demonstrated. The following dominating characteristics are pointed out: absence of convergence of sounds [i] and [y], absence of diphthongization of stressed vowels, reduction of vowels in an unstressed position, as well as contrasting of phonemes <г>, <г'>, <γ> and <γ'>. Moreover, phonemes and are regularly realised by bilabial sounds turning voiceless close to [f] and [f'], while allophones [w], [w'], [y˘] characteristic of the southern Russian dialects and the Ukrainian language are hardly ever met. Derivational means are mostly applied in the sphere of locality with a wide range of agoronyms, godonyms, horonyms. However, Sevastopol urbanonyms are represented only by nominals and created by suffixation. The author concludes that the findings prove the absence of a certain variant of the Russian language in Crimea and Sevastopol, with some deviations from the literary norm characteristic of the subdialects of southern Russia being present.