Ukrainian language: Historical perspective
The Ukrainian Question. The Russian Empire and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
Alexei Miller
Budapest - New York: Central European University Press, 2003
ISBN 963-9241-60-1 (cloth)
The book deals with the Ukrainian question in Russian imperial policy and the process of incorporating Ukraine into the Romanov Empire in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The main focus is on the circumstances surrounding the 1863 and 1876 tsarist prohibitions on the publication and circulation of books and other materials in the Ukrainian language.
The Ukrainian Language in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (1900-1941)
George Y. Shevelov
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 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.
A Historical Phonology of the Ukrainian Language
George Y. Shevelov
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1979
ISBN 3-533-02787-2
An interpretation of the phonological structure of the Ukrainian language as it evolved from its first appearance in literary monuments to the twentieth century. An obligatory text for scholars specialising in the history and phonology of the Slavic languages.
The Language Question in Galicia
Paul R Magocsi
Cambridge, MA: Ukrainian Studies Fund, 1978
An essay on the role of language in the Ukrainian national movement in the Habsburg Empire during the nineteenth century.
Purism and Language. A Study in Modern Ukrainian and Belorussian Nationalism (1840-1967)
Paul Wexler
Bloomington: Indiana University Publications, 1974
ISBN 87750-175-0
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.