Constructions with a secondary union connection in the Russian dialects of the Amur region

The object of the article is the secondary union connection, and the subject is constructions with this type of connection. A secondary union connection takes place when a particular union is included in the syntactic relations between the components of a subordinate phrase, which brings special communicative and pragmatic meanings to its semantics. The purpose is to describe these regional dialect constructions in comparison with similar constructions of the modern Russian literary language. Russian Dialects Dictionary of the Amur Region and the National Corpus of the Russian Language are the empirical basis of the work. Constructions with elementary compositional conjunctions "and", "but", "a", "yes" are considered, because they are the oldest means of syntactic communication and therefore provide an opportunity to analyze the available material taking into account its prototypical features. The article uses the methodology of the Far Eastern Syntactic School, which consists in a multidimensional description of the means of syntactic communication through constructions in the organization of which they participate. Comparative and quantitative methods of analysis are also used. In contrast to the modern Russian literary language, constructions with a secondary union connection in the Russian dialects of the Amur region are of a limited nature. The main array of examples is fixed with the conjunction "but" and with the conjunction "yes" when used in the opposite sense. Constructions with other elementary unions are practically not marked, including with the union "a", which, like the union "but", is also a carrier of oppositional semantics. This, we believe, is a consequence of the fact that the union "a" in the language of consciousness of speakers of Russian dialects of the Amur region is still closely connected with its original meaning – connective-comparative, whereas the secondary connection tends to a contrastive-concessive semantics. The novelty of the research and the personal contribution of the author of the article lies in the fact that for the first time in Russian studies a systematic description of the secondary union connection was made on dialect material. The results of the study provide an opportunity to better understand the principles of the functioning of the secondary union connection not only in the Russian dialects of the Amur region, but also in the system of the Russian national language as a whole.