Пуризм у часопросторi української лiтературної мови: ретроспектива i перспектива
Purism in Ukrainian Literary Language Continuum: Retrospection and Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The paper investigates the role of national linguistic purism in modernization of the Ukrainian literary language at the present stage of its development and the status of the study and understanding of purism by contemporary Ukrainian linguistics and linguists of the period of Ukrainization (1920s–1930s). The specifics of purism based on the Ukrainian national soil and the limits of localization of the Russian language influence (where the puristic interventions can be appropriate and reliably reasoned) are studied. The paper outlines the possible steps towards the improvement of the Ukrainian language and its preconditions for obtaining the European status. Special attention is paid to the history of Czech purism and possibility to use its achievements with the goal of purifying the Ukrainian language from undesirable influences of Russian.

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