Purism and Language
A Study in Modern Ukrainian and Belorussian Nationalism (1840-1967)

A study of "prescriptive intervention" in linguistic development using the Ukrainian and Belarusian languages as examples. The analysis covers language evaluation - whereby labels such as "correct" or "incorrect", "acceptable" or "unacceptable", etc are applied to elements of a language; and language regulation - whereby certain existing elements are proposed to be dropped or retained and others introduced into the language.