George Y. Shevelov
Ukrainian-American linguist and philologist, a leading specialist on the history and phonology of the Ukrainian language and Slavic linguistics. After emigrating from Kharkiv via Germany to the United States, he taught at Harvard and Columbia University. His major works include A Historical Phonology of the Ukrainian Language, and he also wrote literary criticism under the pseudonym Yurii Sherekh.
Books
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1. The Ukrainian Language In The First Half Of The Twentieth Century
Its State and Status
A concise sociolinguistic history of Ukrainian between 1900 and 1941, it traces how competing political regimes shaped the language’s standardization, orthography, and public functions. It highlights the 1920s policy of Ukrainization and the subsequent 1930s rollback and Russification, examines education, administration, and publishing, contrasts developments in Soviet and non-Soviet Ukrainian lands under Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia, and evaluates how shifting power structures affected both linguistic norms and societal status.
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