Volodymyr Glushchenko
Doctor of Science (Linguistics), Professor, Head of the Department
of Germanic and Slavonic Linguistics, Donbas State Teachers’ Training University, Sloviansk, Ukraine
e-mail: sdpunauka@ukr.net
ORCIDID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2394-4966
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2616-5317-2021-32-3
Key words: history of the Ukrainian language, vocalism and consonantism relationship, phonological level, typology of the Slavonic languages.
P. H. Zhytetskyi’sbook «Очерк звуковой истории малорусского наречия» became a valuable contribution into Ukrainian and Slavonic studies. Zhytetskyi is credited with posing the problem of the relationship between vocalism and consonantism in the history of the Ukrainian language, and thus in the history of the Slavonic languages in general. Zhytetskyi’s thesis about «the poor» vocalism combining with «the rich» consonantism and vice versa in the Slavonic languages and in their history set the grounds of the historical typology of the Slavonic languages (on the phonological level) and proved to be really effective in the XXth ct. linguistics. It provided the principles of the Slavonic languages division into two types – a vocal and a consonant ones, which were interpreted both synchronically and diachronically (A. V. Isachenko, K. V. Horshkova, V. V. Ivanov, V. V. Kolesov).
Zhytetskyi reconstructed the systems of archytypes and the systems of phonetic rules with the similar mechanism (united by a common cause). This resulted in Zhytetskyi’s understanding of the Ukrainian phonetic system history as a chain of causally related phonetic processes on the level of the subsystems (vocalism and consonantism) and the sound categories (strong and weak, voiced and unvoiced, hard and soft consonants). Therefore, Zhytetskyi’s concept of the relationship between vocalism and consonantism in the history of the Ukrainian language has
retained its relevance in comparative and typological linguistiscs of the XX-th ct. – early XXIst ct.
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