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Диалектные различия между востоком и западом на материале данных Диалектологического атласа русского языка: результаты многомерного шкалирования
This paper presents a classification of Russian dialects based on data from the Dialectological Atlas of the Russian Language, using the method of multidimensional scaling. The main outcome of the study is a map of the Russian dialectal space, which identifies six zones (three western and three eastern) and corresponding sets of dialectal features. The authors focuses on the traditional issue in Russian linguistic geography—the division between western and eastern dialects—while placing greater emphasis on the eastern group. The resulting sets of features are compared with the dialect classification proposed by K.F. Zakharova and V.G. Orlova. The identified features differ from those highlighted by Zakharova and Orlova and focus more closely on the connection between the eastern zones and the historical Rostov–Suzdal dialect. Although the method used is not historically based, its results are open to historical interpretation.