Grammatical theory of I.R. Vykhovanets: tradition and innovation

Kateryna Horodenska, Doctor of Sciences in Philology, Professor, Head in the Department of Grammar and Scientific Terminology
Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Mykhailо Hrushevskуі St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine

E-mail: k.horodenska70@meta.ua
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2638-9037

Heading: Scientific figures of Ukrainian linguists
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The article describes the innovative ideas of Ivan Vykhovanets, which served as a theoretical and methodological basis for the creation of functional and functional-categorical grammar of the Ukrainian language. The main manifestations of innovation are systematized in its three subsystems, namely functional morphology, functional syntax, and functional word formation.

The developed semantic and syntactic classifications of parts of speech, functional words-morphemes and words-sentences, grammatical (morphological and word-formation) categories, simple two-syllable and one-syllable, complex and compound sentences were evaluated. The novelty of the interpretation of the category of case and the hierarchy of cases in the Ukrainian language, the author’s interpretations of traditional grammatical categories of the verb (type, mood, transitivity/ intransitivity, state) are clarified. Such a significant change is highlighted as the adjustment of the paradigm of passive constructions, from which Ivan Vykhovanets removed sentences with a predicate expressed by an imperfective verb with the postfix -ся, since in the syntactic system of the Ukrainian language such passive constructions, in contrast to other Slavic languages, have ended up on the extreme periphery.

A logically ordered four-component composition of verbal formations united by the concept of “verbal lexeme” is presented, and the removal of the adverb from the five-component traditional composition is motivated.

The advantages of a well-founded three-stage transposition of parts of speech over traditional interpart-of-speech transitions are noted.

The significant contribution of Ivan Vykhovanets to the development of the theory of syntactic relations, the formation of the foundations of semantic syntax, the creation of the concept of a sentence as a multidimensional syntactic unit-construction, and the syntactic interpretation of word-forming categories of nouns, adjectives, and verbs is highlighted.

Keywords: grammatical theory, innovation, functional approach, semantic-syntactic approach, functional grammar, functional-categorical grammar, grammatical categories, word-formation categories, semantic syntax, grammatical lexicography.

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