Alexander Savvich Melnichuk ( July 12, 1921 , Pisarevka, Odessa Province - March 19, 1997 , Kiev ) - Soviet and Ukrainian linguist , an expert in the field of general and comparative historical linguistics , history and etymology of Slavic languages . Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences from December 29, 1981 in the Department of Literature and Language (Linguistics). Academician of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences (1985; corresponding member since 1967).
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supervisor | L. A. Bulakhovsky , M. Ya. Kalinovich |
Famous students | V.G. Sklyarenko |
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Biography
After graduating from school in 1938, he entered the philological department of Kiev University . Since 1941 - at the front, participated in the liberation of Warsaw and the storming of Berlin . He graduated from the philological faculty of the KSU (1947, supervisor M. Ya. Kalinovich ) and postgraduate study at the Institute of Linguistics. A. A. Potebni of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR under the direction of L. A. Bulakhovsky (1950). Head of the Department of General and Slavic Linguistics of the Institute of Language Studies (1961-1991), Doctor of Philology (1965), Professor (1966). Member of the CPSU since 1967 . And about. Academician-Secretary of the Department of Literature, Language and Art Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1971-1978); Chairman of the Committee on Scientific Terminology at the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) (1987–1992); chief editor of the journal "Movznavstvo" (1987-1993). He was a member of the editorial board of the journal “ Izvestia RAN. A series of literature and language . Buried at Baikovo cemetery .
Scientific Activities
Investigated a number of theoretical problems: the concepts of the system and the structure of the language, the question of the relationship in the language of the ideal and the material . He was also engaged in the methodology of linguistics, from the Marxist position he analyzed the latest trends and trends in world linguistics.
The founder of the Kiev etymological school [1] . In the 1980s, he created and led the team of authors to create the fundamental " Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language " (vols. 1-6, 1982-2012).
Author of over 200 scientific publications.
Major Works
- Monographs
- "Word order and syntagmatic division of sentences in Slavic languages" (1958);
- "The development of the structure of the Slov'yanskii river" (1966);
- "The accession to the porcelain-historical vivchennya Slov'yanskih mov" (1966, editor);
- “The Ukrainian Language Literacy: Syntax” (1972, editor);
- "Slovennik іnshomovnih slіv" (1974, 2nd ed. 1985; editor);
- "Questions of the theory of language in foreign linguistics" (1976);
- "About Moving Kiev Lіtpisu XII stolittya" (1983);
- "Modern foreign linguistics: questions of theory and methodology" (1983, editor);
- “Historical typology of Slavic languages” (chh. 1–2, 1986–2008; jointly with O. B. Tkachenko );
- "Methodological problems of linguistics" (1988, editor);
- "Methodological foundations of new directions in world linguistics" (1992, editor)
- Articles
- "Traces of explosive laryngeal in Indo-European languages" // " Questions of linguistics ", 1960, № 3
- "On the role of thinking in the formation of the structure of language" // "Language and thinking" (1967)
- "The concepts of the system and structure of language in the light of dialectical materialism" // "Leninism and theoretical problems of linguistics" (1970);
- “On the Genesis of Indo-European Vocalism” // “Questions of Linguistics”, 1979, No. 5-6;
- “The Development of Movie Yak Realistic Systems” // “ Movznavstvo ”, 1981, No. 2;
- “On the Universal Relationship of the Languages of the World” // “Questions of Linguistics”, 1991, No. 2-3;
- “Mova Yak Suspension Ivashche і Yak Subject of Achieving Moving” // “Movznavstvo”, 1997, № 2/3
Awards
He was awarded the medal " For Courage " and other military awards.
Notes
- ↑ Oleksandr Savich Melnichuk on the website of the Institute of Linguistics. A. A. Potebni (Ukr.)
Links
- Profile of Alexander Savvich Melnichuk on the official website of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Article (inaccessible link) in the “ Encyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius ”
- Historical background on the Archive of RAS
- Neroznak V. P. Alexander Savvich Melnychuk (obituary)
- International Scientific Conference “Academician Oleksandr Savich Melnichuk and the World of Mouznavstvo” (ukr.)