THE NATIONAL SPECIFICITY OF THE UKRAINIAN VERB IN THE THEORETICAL WORKS AND PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS OF IVAN VYKHOVANETS

Svitlana SOKOLOVA,
Doctor of Sciences in Philology, Professor,
Head in the Department of Stylistics, Language Culture and Sociolinguistics,
Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
4 Mykhaіlа Hrushevskоhо St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine
е-mail: a-senchuk@ukr.net
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0052-6128

Heading: FIGURES OF UKRAINIAN LINGUISTS
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
The article highlights Ivan Vykhovanets’s theoretical views on the grammatical and lexical features of the Ukrainian verb in comparison with russian, interpreted through the lens of his language-culture recommendations presented in his popular-science publications, especially in the collection of linguistic essays “Rozmovliaimo ukrainskoiu”(“Let’s speak Ukrainian”). It is emphasised that the creation of a new academic grammar, grounded in robust theoretical principles, one that would reflect the distinctive features of the Ukrainian language and illuminate its national specificity, began from the moment Ukrainian statehood was restored. However, this goal was only partially achieved: only Morphology was published.
In his theoretical works, the scholar emphasised that the grammatical specificity of Ukrainian lies in the inseparable combination of verbness and nounness as a characteristic feature of the Ukrainian language. Among the specific grammatical features of Ukrainian related to the verb, we find: the completed morphological transition of participles and adjectives into nouns; the two poles of verbal correlations within the category of voice – active action and the resultative state arising from the performance of an active action; the absence of present-tense active participles; the synthetic means of forming verbal constructions denoting an appeal to joint action; the uniqueness of polysemy and homonymy; and the particularities of creating and using deverbal nouns and verbs expressing the acquisition of a property. These and other features of the Ukrainian language are reflected in the scholarly and popular-science works of Ivan Vykhovanets.
Key words: verb, noun, grammar, semantics, polysemy, active action, resultative state.

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LEGEND
РУ – Vykhovanets, I.R. (2012). Let’s speak Ukrainian: Linguistic etudes. Kyiv: Pulsary (in Ukr.).
СУМ – Bilodid, I.K. (Ed.). (1970–1980). Dictionary of the Ukrainian language: in 11 vols. Kyiv: Naukona dumka (in Ukr.)
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