PHONETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL TRENDS OF THE MOLDOVAN SPEECHES SPOKEN ON THE TERRITORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

• Main Author: Stela SPÎNU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academy of Sciences of Moldova 2017-04-01
• Series: Akademos: Revista de Ştiinţă, Inovare, Cultură şi Artă
• Subjects: language; on-site dialectological and folk expeditions; linguistic atlas; dialectal text; speache; tradition; dialectal-ethnographic glossary
• Online Access: http://akademos.asm.md/files/105_110_Tendinte%20fonetice%20si%20morfologice%20ale%20graiurilor%20moldovenesti%20vorbite%20pe%20teritoriul.pdf

This article analyzes the current state of evolution of the spoken Romanian language on the territory of the Republic of Moldova and reveal the dynamics of dialects in the last two decades. To achieve this goal, we organized on-site dialectological expeditions on a sample of 40 communities included in the Moldovan Linguistic Atlas (MLA) network. The factologic material was interpreted. The methods of investigation applied in the work shall conform to the complexity of the studied phenomenon. We will appeal to the ethnographic-folk-dialectal synchronic method associated with the linguistic geography, the method of dialectal survey, the descriptive method, the analysis and synthesis of the collected material, the historical-comparative and etymological method etc. The analysis of the phonetic and morphological peculiarities, specific to the Republic of Moldova, demonstrated the differences that persist between the language spoken by the young people and the older generation. The older generation remained attached to the old linguistic traditions, the young people's speech have many common features with the literary language.