Mamchich I. Vasil Chaplenko's Linguistic Heritage.

The purpose of the dissertation is to study Vasil Chaplenko's linguistic heritage with respect to general and specific (the Ukrainian language) language studies. The object of reseach consists in the study of Vasil Chaplenko's theoretical views of topical problems of general linguistics, language peculiarities of the author's literary works, methods applied in research - descriptive, structural, comparative and statistic. The novelty of this research work lies in the fact that it is the first attempt to study V. Chaplenko's scientific heritage and his languge style. It helps to highlight some unknown facts in the historical development of linguistic theory of the XX century. The results obtained lie in the systematization of V. Chaplenko scientific views concerning the problem of absolute language univerasals in comparison with theoretical views of native and foreign scholars; the study of major peculiarities of V. Chaplenko's language style.