The author explores verbs and the system of verb forms in texts written in the Nīcgale dialect. The investigation indicates that the responses having to do to a large degree with the elderly age group of responders are rich in ancient verb forms, but the language of the younger generation can be characterised by the use of forms typical in Standard Latvian. We noticed a lot of Russian words, which were Latvianised or just simply transferred into the Latvian language. As a result, new forms of verbs appeared. In our research, we have grouped these verbs according to root groups. Words used by the representatives of a dialect are compared with words used in the Latvian Language as well as with other dialects. We have analysed the frequency of using certain verb forms, the age of the responders, their occupation and other factors. It was discovered that due to the influence of Standard Latvian the stability of facts had been preserved. The Nīcgale dialect, being one of the oldest, indicates that several characteristic verb forms have been preserved. Besides to the table facts, we have noticed peculiarities of verbs, which have changed, becoming similar to verb forms used in Standard Latvian, what we call innovations.

The article deals with the description of the domimants of the linguistic dialect personality, which are discovered in its speech. The author tries to create the speech portrait of the dialect personality, researches into the different aspects of the idiolect. For all that the anthropolinguistic aspect (the description of the real dialect personality) and the dialect aspect of this research are equal in rights.The material for research is the dialect speech of the informant – of the ordinary linguistic personality, which speaks the oldest dialect norm of one of the outlying North Russian dialects because of its age.The discourse of the linguistic personality is characterized with the features of traditional dialect and with the genetic connection to the folk peasant culture, which is expressed in the world perception and world feeling of the personality.This linguistic personality of a dialect representative is a typical and individual linguistic personality at the same time.

The fact that the words nominating natural phenomena belong to the basic vocabulary of the language, explains the importance of studying this layer of Lexis. Meteorological Lexis is one of the major thematic groups nominating natural and geographical peculiarities of a region. The article deals with the meteonyms belonging to the integral seme “horizontal air movement above the earth surface”. The group of meteonyms under study contains the names of winds used in Belozersk district dialects. The author touches upon the problems of the me teonyms semantics and their nomination indexes. Other problems under consideration are the area the meteonyms are spread in Belozersk district and comparative analyses of Belozersk district dialect with those of the White Sea and Ladoga Lake districts.