This dissertation consists of two parts. Part I contains a description of the dialect spoken by the oldest inhabitants of the village of Varzuga, a traditional Russian dialect spoken on the Kola Peninsula, which lacks a good description and is rapidly changing, losing most of its dialectal characteristics. The description
describes to phenomena which are usually neglected, because they are specific for spontaneous speech, such as prosody above the word and discourse structure.

Part II of this dissertation contains a description of a uniquely Northern Russian phenomenon – the pragmatic particle dak, which can be used in postposition.