Черемська О. Kharkiv Philological School in the history of Ukrainian linguistics of 1920th – 1930th.

This dissertation presents an innovative research of the significance of Kharkiv Philological School in the history of Ukrainian linguistics, the role of the ideas of O. Potebnia, as the head and inspirer of this school, as well as scientific achievements of his students and followers in conducting historical and philological studies of Ukrainian language at the beginning of XXth century, in which an important place belongs to the works of Ukrainian linguists of 1920th – 1930th. For the first time a comprehensive approach to the investigation of scientific activity of Kharkiv Philological School in the history of Ukrainian linguistics of XIXth – first third of XXth century is offered: main stages of the development of this school are singled out, views of the representatives of this school on the formation and development of Ukrainian linguistics are sorted out; directions and aspects of activity of these linguists are actualized; an attempt to objectively assess the contribution of this school representatives to scientific investigation of the Ukrainian language is made. On the basis of elaboration of the biographic and bibliographic materials, scientific works and memoirs of the representatives of Kharkiv Philological School, periodization of its activity during XIXth – first third of XXth century is proposed and four stages in its development are distinguished (basing on the evolution of views in European linguistics and changes in the directions of School research). At the first stage (syncretic researches) (1810th – 1820th) studies of classical philology, rhetoric and literature were started; the second stage (comparative historical researches) (1830th – 1850th) is characterized by the appearance of dialectological, phonetical, lexical and grammatical studies of Slavic languages, inсluding their comparative aspect, as well as by accumulation of the ethnographic material; the third stage (psycholinguistic researches) (1860th – 1890th) or so called Potebnia period, is marked by the introduction and establishment of the psychological direction in linguistics and literary studies; the fourth stage (literary language standardization) (first third of XXth century) is characterized by the system-structural approach to the analysis of linguistic facts. It is stated out that in Ukrainian linguistics of XIXth century first three stages are distinguished by the development of genetic (comparative-historical) scientific paradigm, and the fourth stage – by the development of taxonomic (system-structural) paradigm.