Grossman: НА ВЕЧНОМ ПОКОЕ:"vse pribuyut da pribuyut"

Robert Chandler kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM
Thu Nov 5 06:26:18 UTC 2009


Thank you, Svetlana(s), Olga and everyone else, who has responded to this
question of mine!

Best Wishes,

Robert




> I also assume that it is likely to be a 3 person plur verbal form
> "mispronounced" with a stereotypical Lemko accent. It sounds like a
> Carpathian-Lemko dialect form. Given in quotation marks this phrase seems to
> have an ethnic connotation.    
> 
> --- On Wed, 4/11/09, Olga Meerson <meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Olga Meerson <meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Grossman: НА ВЕЧНОМ ПОКОЕ: "vse pribuyut da pribuyut"
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Date: Wednesday, 4 November, 2009, 11:49 PM
> 
> 
> The form is incorrect. Pribyvaiut would be correct, but here, the -yva- suffix
> is treated like an -ova- one (like "risuiut" from "risovat'"). This at times
> happens in dialects, and Grossman seems to quote the person at the cemetery
> using one of those dialects.
> 
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