Idei de lingvistică generală la Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu şi concepţia lingvistică a reprezentanţilor Şcolii lingvistice din Harcov (Kharkiv) (I. Srezn
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu and the Linguistic Conception of Language School of Kharkiv Representatives: Sreznevskyi, Potebnea, Jitetskyi

Summary/Abstract: The article refers to the parallels between the general linguistic concepts of Romanian philologist Hasdeu (1838-1907) and the ones of the Ukrainian linguists of the nineteenth century, who collaborated with the University of Kharkiv, founded in 1805. Hasdeu was the first Romanian linguist who was truly interested in modern Indo-European linguistics. His work "Principles of linguistics" is a veritable dissertation of general linguistics. The concept of general linguistics created by Hasdeu in the spirit of the neogrammars is to get near the field of Bopp and Humboldt’s first comparative linguistics movement, Schleicher’s biologism and Steinthal's psychologism. Ukrainian philologists of the nineteenth century were, as well as Hasdeu, ardent supporters of their national language (see Potebnea's article "Language and nation"). They gathered folklore, accentuating the importance of poetic popular language in the forming of the language, and were interested in issues of language and mentality of the infantile language. In Potebnea’s works, as well as in the works of Hasdeu, it’s all about the correlation of language and mentality, about the systematic nature of the language (before Saussure), etc.. Pavlo Jitetskyi’s research (1836/1837 - 1911) on the history of Ukrainian literary language are written in the same manner as Hasdeu’s research on the history of Romanian language in a large historical and cultural context. Jitetskyi, as well as Hasdeu, appreciated a lot Humboldt’s progressive and accurate ideas of language as an activity. Jitetskyi is the author of the fundamental study "Humboldt in the history of philosophical linguistics”. During the second half of the nineteenth century, the linguistics in Romania and the one in Ukraine had many common features and developed in the direction of the European linguistic tradition.

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