TERMS FOR THE DESIGNATION OF MORPHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS IN A. KRYMSKYI’S “UKRAINIAN GRAMMAR”

Abstract

The article focuses on one of the aspects of A. Krymskyi’s linguistic activity – development and implementation of morphological terms into scientific circulation as an integral part of Ukrainian grammatical terminology. The work of the scientist “Ukrainian grammar for students of higher classes of gymnasiums and seminaries of the Dnieper Region” (1907–1908) played an important role on normalization of Ukrainian morphological terminology. In the respective research, the stages of development of terms for parts of speech and grammatical categories on a vernacular basis, the processes of their competition on the way to normative consolidation in modern Ukrainian morphological terminology are traced. A. Krymskyi initiated the scientific research of the grammatical system of the language, raised the most important problem of term formation by Ukrainian grammarians – the ratio of borrowed and native Ukrainian terms. The grammar material offers terms for the grammatic designation of gender category (a four-grammatic composition, as in the modern Ukrainian language): masculine gender, feminine gender, neuter gender, and common gender. A linguist developed a seven-component system of cases – nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, instrumental and locative, which have entered modern scientific terminology unchanged. Some terms for parts of speech (numeral, verb) have also become generally accepted in the modern morphological term subsystem. The terminological material of the grammar testified to the distinct tendency of its author to create his own national terminology on a folk basis. Grammar had a great influence on the formation of grammatical thought in Ukraine, contributed to the enrichment of grammatical theory due to the introduction of new term units into scientific circulation.