Peculiarities of situational metonymy of dialect verbs

Author gives an overview of the main types of metonymic polysemy of dialect verbs on the base of the Dictionary of Russian Dialects and Vologda Dialect Dictionary. The peculiarities of this grammatical category of words and their content, which semantically modulates depending on the actants in different thematic and conceptual situations, are described. The coordinates of speech situations, which are much more flexible in a spoken language than in a writtenone, also influence contextual changes in the lexical and grammatical meanings of dialect verbs. The heterogeneity of the lexicographic description of situational metonymy of dialect verbs is also considered.