Ярослава Закревська – знакова постать українського мовознавства (до 90-річчя від дня народження)

The main events in the scientific life of Yaroslava Zakrevska, a well-known dialectologist, researcher of word formation and vocabulary of Ukrainian dialects, are highlighted. Emphasis is placed on her work on the second volume of the «Atlas of the Ukrainian Language». It is noted that, in the second volume, the system of word-formation maps is developed, which represents not only the morpheme structure of a single word but also the word-formation system of the Ukrainian dialect language. Moreover, AUM is the only one of the Slavic linguistic atlases, which covers the Ukrainian linguistic and ethnic territory regardless of modern state borders. It is emphasized that for many years she participated in creating fundamental international projects – «All-Slavic Linguistic Atlas» and «All-Carpathian Dialectological Atlas». Yaroslava Zakrevska for years recorded Ukrainian dialects on the ethnic lands of Ukrainians: in Poland, Belarus, Slovakia, Moldova. Therefore, the problems of the Ukrainian language outside Ukraine became one of the main in the last decade of her scientific activity. The researcher believed that one of the most problematic issues of world Ukrainians is determining the proper place of the native language in the system of basic indices of ethnicity.

Yaroslava Zakrevska, dialectology, Atlas of the Ukrainian language, dialect word formation, Hutsul dialect.