George Y. Shevelov
Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research
Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989
ISBN 0-916458-30-X
The book traces the development of modern standard Ukrainian in relation to the political, legal and cultural conditions in different parts of Ukraine. It examines the relation of the standard language to the underlying dialects, the ways in which the standard language was enriched and the complex struggle for the unity of the language and sometimes for its very existence.