Kateryna Karunyk

PhD in Philology, Associate Professor

Education:
Studied the Ukrainian and English philology in Kharkiv Skovoroda’s National Pedagogic University. MA (thesis: Polysemic Colour Names in the English and Ukrainian Languages) (2004-2009);
PhD-student, Kharkiv Skovoroda’s National Pedagogic University, thesis: George Y. Shevelov’s Research into the Ukrainian language» (2009-2013);
defended the thesis and got the PhD degree. (2019)

Research interests:
History of Standard Ukrainian & language standardization; linguistic historiography, George Y. Shevelov’s linguistic oeuvre; Soviet language policy & historical sociolinguistics; Slavonic studies; history of the Ukrainian terminology and lexicography.

Languages:
Ukrainian – native
English, Russian – fluent
Portuguese – reading knowledge and some communicative skills
Polish, Belorussian, Croatian, German – reading knowledge

Work experience:
Teacher of Ukrainian and English in Kharkiv liceum №141. (2007-2011)
Lecturer at the Department of Language Training №1 in Kharkiv Karazin’s National University (2017-2018)
Senior lecturer at the Department of Pedagogics, Philosophy and Language Training at Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Studies (2019-2022)
Associate professor at the Department of the Ukrainian Studies at Kharkiv Karazin’s National University. (since 2022)

Collaboration in Research Projects:
International project «Region, Nation and Beyond. An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconceptualization of Ukraine» (conducted by the University of St. Gallen, Center for Governance and Culture), project participant. (2012-2014)
International research project «Corpus Planning, Unplanning and Replanning for Ukrainian (1920-2015)» (conducted by the University of St. Gallen, Center for Governance and Culture), co-director, participant. (2015-2016)
International project «Transnational Contact Zones: Redefining Ukrainian Regionalism» (conducted by the University of St. Gallen, Center for Governance and Culture), project participant.(2016-2018)

Publications:
1. “Opposition of Languages or Integration of Dialects? George Y. Shevelov on the Sources of Standard Ukrainian” Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 23: 2. P. 275–294. URL: http://elverdissen.dyndns.org/nodus/bs23.html
2. “How do phonemes work in historical phonology? The approach of George Y. Shevelov.” In: Carlos Assunção, Gonçalo Fernandes & Rolf Kemmler (eds.). Tradition and Innovation in the History of Linguistics. Münster: Nodus Publicationen, 2016. P. 165–183. URL: https://cutt.ly/Gw0RHV2w
3.“The Ukrainian Spelling Reforms, Half-reforms, Non-reforms and Anti-reforms as Manifestation of the Soviet Language Policy.” Studi Slavistici. Vol. XIV. P. 91–110. URL: https://doi.org/10.13128/Studi_Slavis-21940
4. “Soviet Language Policy in the Western and Southwestern Regions of Ukraine (1939–1991).” In: Ulrich Schmid & Oksana Myshlovska (eds.). Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity. Budapest; New York: CEU, 2019. P. 156–178. URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633863114-008
5. “Álvares’ Latin Grammar in the Ukrainian intellectual framework of the 17-19th centuries.” In: Rolf Kemmler & Gonçalo Fernandes (eds.). 450 anos De institvtione grammatica libri tres: A gramática latino-portuguesa de Manuel Álvares no mundo moderno. Vila Real: Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro; Centro de Estudos em Letras, 2023. P. 75–98. URL: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=9237268

Membership in Learned Societies:
Member of the Kharkiv Historico-Philological Society (since 2012)
Head of the Linguistic group in the Kharkiv Historico-Philological Society (since 2019)

Profiles in databases:

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