Department of Ukrainian Language

Head: Petro Bilousenko, D.Litt., professor
Contacts: Zhukovskogo str. 66 a, building 2, office 237
ph. # +38 (061) 289 12 88
Foundation date: September 1, 1930. The department was founded at the time of Zaporizhzhya Public Education Institute's establishment.

Faculty staff

• Liubov Stovbur, Ph.D., associate professor
• Petro Bilousenko, D.Litt., professor
• Larysa Boiko, Ph.D., associate professor
• Larysa Denysenko, Ph.D., associate professor
• Natalia Zubets, Ph.D., associate professor
• Liudmyla Kucherenko, Ph.D., associate professor
• Svitlana Sablina, Ph.D., associate professor
• Taras Shevchenko, Ph.D., associate professor
• Volodymyr Oleksenko, D.Litt., professor

The department has been headed by Ph.D., associate professor Liubov Stovbur who started her career path from the student to associate professor keeping up the best achievements and traditions of her predecessors.
Faculty staff put into practice advanced and cutting-edge innovations in educational, scientific and methodological domains.

Department members drive their efforts to foster and develop linguistic competence of their students, enhance the quality of educators' scientific and methodological level, develop and introduce efficient methods in students' education, advance scholarly achievements and work of both educators and students.

Scholarly activities

Department members give academic courses in fundamental subjects at the Philological Faculty:

• Contemporary Ukrainian literary language, Ukrainian dialectology, Historical grammar of Ukrainian, History of Ukrainian literary language, Spelling and Punctuation Practicum, Literary editing.

While preparing professional linguists in Ukrainian language the educators follow conceptual approaches in teaching modern Ukrainian literary language and history:

• profound mastering of theoretical issues within the structure of contemporary Ukrainian literary language at all levels (dialectology materials included), which represent the language as a system of systems having been formed during the long period of its functioning;
• hands-on mastering of skills to create texts diverse in their style and genre retaining the standards of contemporary Ukrainian literary language;
• building skills in transferring the knowledge gained to high school students through introduction in classes (lectures, seminars, practicums, laboratory classes ) innovative pedagogic approaches which could be applied by the graduates in schools;
• developing skills and experience in performing scholarly and linguistic research over modern conditions and history of Ukrainian language.

A wide scope of investigations into historical development of Ukrainian, irrefutable success of linguists from Zaporizhzhya National University in this direction made it possible to found in 2004 non-government South Ukraine History and Derivative Studies Center at the Department of Ukrainian Language. The Center coordinates its work with the Department of Language History at the Institute of Ukrainian language (National Academy of Sciences).
A range of topics on history and derivative studies are investigated jointly with the Institute of Ukrainian language (National Academy of Sciences). Research work on 'Essay on the History of Word Formation in Ukrainian (Noun suffix -ина)' has been finished by professor P. Bilousenko, co-authored with the Institute director, corresponding member at the National Academy of Sciences, professor V. Nimchuk.
Other topics under the scrutiny are as follows:

• 'Dynamics of Noun confixal derivation
• 'History of complex-suffixal formation of Noun in Ukrainian'.

Annually tens of research articles are published within the Center's range of problems. Historical and derivative investigations conducted by the department undergo approval and review at the Institute of Ukrainian language, National Academy of Sciences.  
The center holds workshops and conferences at both national and local level.

Graduate school

The department offers graduate education to follow one's research career
and has Academic Boards on thesis defense.

Research topics investigated by the department faculty

1. Topical problems in lexicology of Contemporary Ukrainian Literary Language/supervisor: Larysa Boiko, associate professor
2. Achievements in Contemporary Ukrainian Phraseology/ supervisor: Natalia Zubets, associate professor
   Ukrainian Church Terminology Formation/ supervisor: Svitlana Sablina, associate professor
3. Grammatical Stylistics/ supervisor: Liudmyla Kucherenko, associate professor
4. Topical problems of syntax in Ukrainian language/ supervisor: Larysa Denysenko, associate professor
5. Innovations in derivative system of Ukrainian language/ supervisor: Liubov Stovbur, associate professor
6. Word-formation of Ukrainian Noun in historical area aspect/ supervisor: Petro Bilousenko, professor
7. Ethnolinguistic and structural levels in Ukrainian Literary Language/supervisor: Taras Shevchenko

Department of Ukrainian language sustains long-standing mutual collaboration with:

• the Institute of Ukrainian language, National Academy of Sciences (Department of Language History): professor Petro Bilousenko is on editorial board of 'Ukrainian Language' scientific journal, a member of scientific coordination board, attendee of its meetings and seminars.
• Kryvyi Rih Pedagogic University
• Crimea Humanities University (Yalta)
• Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Society of "Prosvita"
• Ukrainian Language Society in Chicago (U.S.A.)
• "Dniprovski porogy" of Zaporizhzhya regional association
• Newspapers of Derzhava i Natsiya" (State and the Nation), "Literaturna Ukrayina"(Literary Ukraine).