Future Tense in East Polissian (Border) Dialects

This article provides further insight into the use, function, and distribution of the imperfective future in East Polissian (border) dialects within the broader context of the East Slavic languages. Futurity – particularly the issue of the imperfective synthetic future in Standard Ukrainian, often discussed in relation to the analogous Romance pattern – has received substantial scholarly attention over recent decades. By contrast, relatively little attention has been devoted to the use and distribution of imperfective future constructions, both analytic (periphrastic) and synthetic, in the Central and East Polissian dialects. An examination of these constructions, alongside other dialectal morphosyntactic and typological features, is essential for achieving a more accurate areal-typological characterization of the (East) Slavic languages.