У пропонованій розвідці за свідченнями трьох часових зрізів – кінця ХІХ ст. (етнографічні матеріали Бориса Грінченка), середини ХХ ст. (дані «Атласу української мови») і початку ХХІ ст. (власні експедиційні записи) – здійснено спробу виявити динаміку елементів мовної структури говірки с. Пльохів Чернігівського району Чернігівської області.
The proposed exploration represents the dynamics of the language structure elements of the dialect of Plokhiv village (Chernihiv district, Chernihiv region) according to the evidence of three time slices - the end of the XIX century (ethnographic materials of Borys Hrinchenko), middle of the XX century (data "Atlas of the Ukrainian language") and the beginning of the XXI century (own author’s expedition records).
The research was carried out with such methods as content analysis, comparative analysis, interviews, linguistic-geographical method and linguistic description.
It has been noted that folklore records have long been used as sources of dialectal speech in linguistics, although rarely. They are a valuable source for identifying the dynamics of dialects; it has been proved by scientific studies of the south-eastern dialect of the Ukrainian language. However, folklore texts as a source for studying the dynamics of dialectal speech of Eastern Polissya are still out of the attention of scholars.
Comparative study of the dialect of Plokhiv village in different time slices showed that a significant part of the elements of speech have not changed for a long time.
At the same time, a number of language elements reduced functional activity due to the development of other forms, which began to be used in parallel. However, the tendency to preserve the structure of speech dominates, because the replacement of some forms by others is rarely recorded.
