Linguistic horizons of Vasyl Vasylovych Nіmchuk

Sviatoslav Verbych, Doctor of Philology, Senior Researcher in the Department of History of the Ukrainian Language and Onomastics Institute of  the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Mykhaіlo Hrushevskyi St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine

E-mail: sviatoverb@ukr.net
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4671-1898

Heading: Scientific figures of Ukrainian linguists
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the scientific work of Doctor of Philology, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine V.V. Nimchuk. We analyzed the scientist’s contribution to various branches of Slavic linguistics and Ukrainian linguistics – the history of the Ukrainian language, scientific description and publication of monuments of Slavic writing and the Ukrainian language, dialectology, etymology, onomastics, derivation, Carpatho-Ukrainian-Balkan language connections, stylistics, Ukrainian orthography, Ukrainian glottogenesis. Vasyl Vasyliovych is a versatile scientist in the field of linguistics (his creative output includes more than 500 works, including more than twenty books; these are mainly individual works on various problems of linguistics), but he gained the greatest authority both in Ukraine and abroad, primarily as a language historian, a thorough researcher of ancient texts of Ukrainian writing. V.V. Nimchuk worked on and prepared for publication in the series “Memorials of the Ukrainian Language” (10 books, of which 7 were written by him alone, 3 were co-authored). The scientist made a significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian onomastics. He scientifically organized the Ukrainian onomastic terminology. V.V. Nimchuk analyzed Carpatho-Ukrainian-Balkan language connections; Ukrainian spelling; published books of the Bible as unique monuments of the Ukrainian language; problems of the origin of the Ukrainian language. The article also emphasizes the role of V.V. Nimchuk as an organizer of Ukrainian linguistic science. The principles of scientific integrity of the scientist are emphasized.

Keywords: V.V. Nimchuk, dialectology, etymology, history of the Ukrainian language, Carpatho-Ukrainian-Balkan language connections, onomastics, linguo-Ukrainian studies, Slavic linguistics, Ukrainian glotogenesis, Ukrainian orthography, church-religious style of the Ukrainian language.

LEGEND  

Словник   – Buchko, D.H., & Tkachova, N.V. (2012). Dictionary of Ukrainian onomastic terminology. Kharkiv: Ranok-NT (in Ukrainian).

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