Київська лінгвістична славістика першої чверті ХХІ ст.: загальний огляд

Abstract

Ahead of the 17th International Congress of Slavists in Paris in 2025, this article offers a general overview of the directions of scientific research in the first quarter of the 21st century by linguists-slavists of Kyiv, where leading academic and university Slavic centers are concentrated. From the perspective of terminology, linguistic Slavistics includes studies of the languages of Western and Southern Slavs, both separately and in a comparative plan, as well as against the broad background of Slavic linguistics. A brief overview of key works, mainly monographic, lexicographic, and linguistic didactic, is proposed. It is noted that linguists-slavists continue to research Slavic languages in comparative-historical, taxonomic, and communicative-functional paradigms, developing the ideas of leading Ukrainian Slavists of the 20th century and the first quarter of the 21st century — O. S. Melnychuk, V. M. Rusanivskyi, V. G. Sklyarenko, G. P. Pivtorak, O. B. Tkachenko, T. B. Lukinova, A. P. Nepokupny and others. The works of scholars are dedicated to theoretical and practical problems of semantics, etymology, dialectology, onomastics, ethnolinguistics, etc. Among the latest directions within which current issues of Western and Southern Slavic languages are researched are studies in linguocognitology, linguistic pragmatics, and linguofuturology. Attention is drawn to the prospects of Ukrainian linguistic Slavistics, which at the present stage is the work of enthusiasts devoted to their domain. The problem, among other things, is related to the training of personnel in universities, where study hours in the main linguistic and literary disciplines are reduced, interest in postgraduate studies diminishes, and economic difficulties have a negative impact.