What is it about?
The paper deals with the profiling of Ukrainian among all other languages of Europe, constituting Standard Average European (SAE) and especially Central European (CE). Morphosyntactic and phonological features of Ukrainian are explored in comparison with different systems of other Indo-European languages spoken in Europe. This article is a first comprehensive survey of Ukrainian in terms of its areal-typological and historical features as juxtaposed with the so-called Standard Average European
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Why is it important?
Ukrainian is presented, for the first time, in typological and comparative-historical studies as a full-fledged member of the "community" of the languages spoken in Europe. The language is discussed from the alternative areal classification, thus positioning this language as an intermediate member of what is proposed to call, ‘Standard Average Indo-European’
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Ukrainian is placed in the context of what is commonly called 'Standard Average European'. By discussing Ukrainian's features, the author refutes the biased vision of the 'European paradigm' with its central languages found right in the geographical center of Europe. The proposed discussion of Ukrainian opens up a new areal typological and historical perspective not only on Ukrainian but also other East Slavic languages in comparison with the rest of languages spoken in Europe
Professor Andrii Danylenko
Pace University
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This page is a summary of: Ukrainian in the Language Map of Central Europe: Questions of Areal-Typological Profiling, Journal of Language Contact, January 2013, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/19552629-006001008.
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