Pavlo Żytec’kyj and Aleksej A. Šachmatov on language ideology and the status of the Ukrainian language

-

Abstract

_{https://doi.org/10.26485/RKJ/2018/66/5}

_{The article is concerned with some letters from P.I. Zhiteckij and A.A. Shachmatov from the beginning of the 20th c. related to Ukrainian Bible translations. The language arguments of the correspondence are analyzed within the framework of linguistic views of the 19th century on the issue of a ‘national language’. It is seen, that both linguists are arguing within a common discourse, although proposing different answers to the question, whether the Ukraine should receive political independence.}