The Notions of ‘dynamic synchrony’, ‘balancing system’ and ‘tendency’ in George Y. Shevelov’s Linguistic Oeuvre
The Ukrainian linguist George Y. Shevelov (1908–2002), settled in the USA since 1952, is the author of a plethora of publications on the history of Slavonic languages in which he was applying a structural approach. Being a partisan of the Prague Linguistic Circle’s doctrine, he disagreed with Ferdin...
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Histoire Épistémologie Langage
2026
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | The Ukrainian linguist George Y. Shevelov (1908–2002), settled in the USA since 1952, is the author of a plethora of publications on the history of Slavonic languages in which he was applying a structural approach. Being a partisan of the Prague Linguistic Circle’s doctrine, he disagreed with Ferdinand de Saussure’s separation of synchrony and diachrony. Shevelov regarded a language system as never stable and constantly striving for internal balance. The key element in his studies is the insight into the tendencies that indicate the way in which a language system is inclined to change. Therefore, Shevelov put stress on such notions as tendency, balancing system and dynamic synchrony. The paper follows the use of the term dynamic synchrony in Shevelov’s linguistic œuvre from the early 1950s on, comparing his theoretical stance with that of Roman Jakobson and André Martinet, the two scholars usually credited with the invention of the concept of dynamic synchrony. |
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