NASU Institute of Ukrainian Language

NASU Institute of Ukrainian Language
NASU Institute of Ukrainian Language in Pecherskyi District
Established	1991
Director	Hrytsenko Pavlo Yukhymovych
Address	Hrushevsky Street 4
Location	Kyiv, Ukraine
Website	https://www.nas.gov.ua/UA/Org/Pages/default.aspx?OrgID=0000324

The Institute for the Ukrainian Language (Ukrainian: Інститут української мови) of the NAS of Ukraine is a research organization in Ukraine created to do thorough studying of the Ukrainian language. It is the Ukrainian coordinating center of research issues in the Ukrainian language. An activity of importance to the Institute is to consolidate the Ukrainian language as the official language in the lingual space of Ukraine, to reach the lingual harmony in the life of present-day civil society.

Institute for the Ukrainian language was formed in 1991 and is located at the building of the Institute of History of Ukraine on Hrushevsky Street, in Kyiv. Director of the institute is a doctor of philology, professor Pavlo Hrytsenko who is assisted by a corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, doctor of philology, professor Vasyl Nimchuk, a corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, doctor of philology, professor Ivan Vyhovanets, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, doctor of philology, professor Svitlana Yermolenko.

Core activities

The main delineated activity is to research the Ukrainian language as a social, structural, historical, regional national-and-cultural phenomenon. Directions of the Ukrainian language investigations:

social status, functions;
structure of standard language system – vocabulary, grammar, standardization and codifications on every language level;
social, professional and regional differentiation;
origin traces and development history;
contacts with other languages in different periods;
forming and dynamics of Ukrainian onomastics;
development of terminology subsystems.

A lot of institute projects were implemented in cooperation with specialists from other countries. Institute workers are studying the Ukrainian dialects within the international research project The Slavic Linguistic Atlas, collaborating with institutions of academies of all the Slavic countries and Germany. They also cooperate with scientists from European countries within a project «The Linguistic Atlas of Europe» (Prof. Pavlo Hrytsenko). Some research workers of the Institute were co-executors of a project by International Committee of Slavists «Najnowsze dzieje języków slowiańskich» (Opole, Poland). As a result is a research « Ukrainska mova 1945-1995» (1999) (Prof. Svitlana Yermolenko).

Publishing

Another core activity is publishing of science and popular science periodicals:

"Ukrainian language" (Ukrainian: Українська мова), a theoretical science journal for issue in all linguistic branches of Ukrainian language;
"Culture of a word" (Ukrainian: Культура слова), a popular science journal for issues in language standardizations and stylistics;
"Lexicography Bulletin" (Ukrainian: Лексикографічний бюлетень), a science journal for issues in lexicography and lexicology;
"Studies in Onomastics and Etymology" (Ukrainian: Студії з ономастики та етимології), a proceeding for issues in onomastics and etymology;
"Terminology Bulletin" (Ukrainian: Термінологічний вісник), a science journal for issues in terminology.

References

v t e Ukrainian language
Aspects	History Alphabet Braille Grammar Phonology Dialects Romanization
Regulatory institutions	Institute of Ukrainian Language Potebnia Institute of Linguistics Ukrainian Language and Information Fund
Northern Ukrainian dialects	Western Polesian Central Polesian Eastern Polesian
Southeastern Ukrainian dialects	Middle Dnieprian Slobozhan Steppe
Southwestern Ukrainian dialects	Volhynian-Podolian group Volhynian Podolian Galician–Bukovinian group Dniestrian Upper Sannian Pokuttia–Bukovina Hutsul Carpathian group Boyko Transcarpathian Lemko
Related	Canadian Ukrainian Balachka Surzhyk

v t e Higher education in Kyiv
Universities	Hrinchenko University Shevchenko University Aviation University University of Construction and Architecture University of Culture and Arts Cherniakhovsky University of Defense Hetman Economic University University of Food Technologies International University University of Life and Environmental Sciences Linguistic University Bogomolets Medical University University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" Drahomanov Pedagogical University University of Physical Culture and Sports Technical University "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" International Solomon University Karpenko-Karyi University of Theater, Film, and Television University of Technologies and Design University of Trade and Economics
Academies	Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Arts Interregional Academy of Personnel Management Academy of State Administration Academy of Managerial Staff in Culture and Arts Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture Academy of Management Petro Chaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine
Seminaries	Kiev Theological Academy (OCU and UOC-MP) Kyiv Theological Seminary of the Three Holy Hierarchs

v t e Social Sciences and Humanities Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Economics	Demography and Social Research Industry Economics Economics and Forecasting
History, Philosophy, and Law	Archaeology Odesa branch Crimean branch (status uncertain) State and Law History of Ukraine European Research Political Sciences Political and Ethnic National Research Ukrainian Studies Sociology Higher School of Socialogy Oriental Studies Crimean department (status uncertain) Archaeography and Source Studies Lviv department Philosophy Department of Religious Studies Law National Library National Science Library Olbia Humanitarian Education Landmark Studies Odesa Archeological Museum
Literature, Language, and Art Studies	Encyclopaedic Research Literature Art Studies, Folklore Studies, and Ethnology Linguistics Ethnic Studies Ukrainian Language Linguistic and Information Research

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