Studies on Ukrainian-Belarusian Transitional Dialects: an Overview

Studies on Ukrainian-Belarusian transitional dialects have experienced alternated phases of linguistic interest in the 20th century for a number of reasons, e. g. peculiar ethno-geographic position of these dialects, predominance of national orientated dialectological research etc. In this article we intent to provide a chronological outline of the studies devoted to the problem of Ukrainian-Belarusian transitional dialects, with particular attention to those contributions on the transitional dialects spoken in the area north-west of the town of Černihiv. The concept of «transitional dialects» will not be addressed to in this paper since it will object of a separate discussion.