Sviatchenko V. Systematic character of language in European linguistics in the 19th c. – the beginning of the 20th c. : phonetic and phonological level

The thesis presents a linguistic historiographic research into the question of a systematic character of language in European Genetic Linguistics of the 19th c. – the beginning of the 20th c. for the first time. The views of European linguists of the 19th c. – the beginning of the 20th c. have been revealed on the systematic character of language, the sources of these views have been established, the significance of linguists’ ideas of the period mentioned above in the grounding of the systematic approach to language have been defined. The corresponding range of issues has been studied completely taking into account the evolution of linguists’ views on the problem under consideration. The thesis reveals the views of linguists of the 19th c. – the beginning of the 20th c. on systematic character of language (F. Bopp, J. Grimm, R. Rusk, A. Ch. Vostokov, A. Schleicher, N. I. Grech, F. I. Buslaev, I. I. Sreznevskiy, M. A. Maksymovych, J. F. Holovatskyi, O. O. Potebnia, P. G. Zhytetskyi, M. A. Kolosov, A. Leskien, G. Osthoff, K. Brugmann, H. Paul, P. F. Fortunatov, A. A. Shakhmatov, N. N. Durnovo, F. de Saussure, I. A. Baudouin de Courtenay, V. A. Bogoroditskiyn, A. Ye. Krymskyi, K. T. Nimchynov, P. O. Buzuk and others) which theoretically and practically have disclosed the systematic properties of language in the works on historical phonetics of Indo-European languages.