The Ukrainian borrowings in fiction texts written by V. Korolenko

Abstract

The Ukrainian language has a tradition of functioning as a donor language that affects the enrichment of lexical semantic and stylistic resources of the Russian language. There is a need to define the features of development the Ukrainianisms in Russian, it is necessary to develop the appropriate methods of their qualifications and to represent the Ukrainian borrowings in Russian in a particular lexicographical source. Of course, the Ukrainian borrowings in Russian as a consequence of the appropriate interlingual contacts have some tradition of the research and fixing in lexicographical sources (Interpretative Dictionary of "Great Russian" Language by V. Dahl, Dictionary of Modern Russian Language) but there is no dictionary of the Ukrainian borrowings in the Russian language.A great number of scholars study borrowings in different languages: in Ukrainian (B.