Specificity of the interrelation between negation and antonymy in Russian vernacular dialects (structural-semantic aspect)

The article examines negative-prefixal vocabulary of Russian vernacular dialects in the aspect of the manifestation of antonymic relations with correlative prefixless formations. The aim of the research is to identify the correlation of the concepts “negation” and “antonymy” based on the material of vocabulary with negative prefixes in Russian vernacular dialects. The scientific novelty lies in the systematic consideration of vocabulary with negative prefixes in Russian vernacular dialects from the point of view of how antonymic relations with correlative prefixless formations are manifested. As a result of the research, negative-prefixal lexemes and correlative prefixless formations with opposite meanings were identified. The opposition of the semantics of such lexemes is reflected in definitions and contexts. However, as the study showed, the relations within the analyzed negative-positive pairs of words often do not fit into the relations of opposition, which is associated with the heterogeneity of the semantics of the negative prefix in dialects. The absence of a correlative prefixless formation in the dictionary, the presence of a word without a negative prefix with a different suffix may indicate the absence of this lexeme in dialects and is also explained by the specifics of derivation of the analyzed lexemes.