George Y. Shevelov Papers, 1922-2001

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Series II: Writings, 1926-1990s

The series comprises articles, monographs, papers presented at conferences and congresses, talks, memoirs, reviews, poetry, extensive research notes and drafts. Arranged in six subseries.


Subseries II.1: Memoirs "Ia - mene - meni", undated

Typescript of memoirs.



Box 17 Folder 1 to 5 Chastyna persha: Ukraina


Box 17 Folder 6 to 8 Chastyna druha: Evropa


Subseries II.2: Articles and Monographs, 1929-1998

Manuscripts, typescripts and galley proofs with holograph corrections and notes. Arranged alphabetically. Printed materials, books and reprints and off-prints, stored and listed separately from the manuscripts. Books with margin notes and inscription were cataloged to CLIO and remain in the collection.


Manuscripts, 1929-1998



Box 18 Folder 1 "28 dniv osoblyvoi sluzhby sotsiialistichnii bat'kivshchyni i po tomu: buval'shchyna i nebuval'shchyna", New York,, 1998


Box 18 Folder 2 "Alexander Potebnja: an essay to reconstruct the integrity of his image",, 1991


Box 18 Folder 3 "Biohrafiia po smerti", undated


Box 18 Folder 4 "Chy 'vs'o ravno'?"1944


Box 18 Folder 5 "Cui bono? Mini-polemika"


Box 18 Folder 6 "Do pytannia periodyzatsii istorii ukrains'koi movy", New York, 1996 (with related letters and notes), 1996


Box 18 Folder 7 "Dobri novyny z Kharkova", undated


Box 18 Folder 8 "Funktsii rodovoho vidminku v ukrains'kii movi", 1929


Box 18 Folder 9 "Halychyna: peredmova", New York, 1994


Box 18 Folder 10 "History of Slavic. Historical phonology of the Slavic languages: a brief outline of contents and methods"


Box 18 Folder 11 [Hnizdovs'kyi], 1965


Box 18 Folder 12 "Ho-Hai-Ho: Pro prozu Iuriia Andrukhovycha i z pryvodu", 1996


Box 18 Folder 13 "Iazyk i stil' romana F.M.Dostoevskogo 'Bednye liudi'", 1929


Box 18 Folder 14 "Istorychni perypetii odniiei syntaksychnoi konstruktsii u skhidnoslov'ians'kykh movakh: bezosobovi rechennia na -no/-mo iz znakh.vidminkom dodatka", 1969


Box 18 Folder 15 "Liudy Akademii, mury Akademii, knyhy Akademii: spohady i mirkuvannia z nahody p'iatdesiatykh rokovyn Ukrains'koi Vil'noi Akademii Nauk u SShA",, 1995


Box 18 Folder 16 "Muscovite clerks face another country", undated


Box 18 Folder 17 "Na iuvilei Mykoly Nakonechnoho", undated


Box 18 Folder 18 "Na movni temy: lystky z bloknotu", undated (incompleted), undated


Box 18 Folder 19 to 22 Narys suchasnoi ukrains'koi literaturnoi movy, Munich, 1951 (galley proof), 1951



Box 19 Folder 1 to 3 "Nikolaj Ge: an artist in a different context", 1989


Box 19 Folder 1 to 2 Typescripts and notes


Box 19 Folder 3 "Mykola Ge i Taras Shevchenko: mystets' u vidminnomu konteksti" (translation by O.Solovei)


Box 19 Folder 4 [Nitsshe], 1944


Box 19 Folder 5 "Notatky pro etymolohiiu", 1936 (with Shevelov's note about this article, 1990), 1936


Box 19 Folder 6 "Novitnia Odisseia: mozhlyvosti i obmezhennia", 1994 (review on L.Bol'shakov's book about Shevchenko, 1994


Box 19 Folder 7 "O kharaktere iazyka i stilia komedii Griboedova 'Gore ot uma': po materialu IV dejstviia",, 1929


Box 19 Folder 8 "O.S.Pushkin u ukrains'kykh dorevoliutsiinykh perekladak: 1829-1917", undated (incomplete), undated


On Lunt's reviews:


Box 19 Folder 9 "Few explanations for the readers of The Slavic and East European Journal" , 1966


Box 19 Folder 10 To the Editors of Rocznik slawisstyczny , undated


Box 19 Folder 10 Untitled


Box 19 Folder 11 "Pohliad na isotoriiu ukrains'koi literaturnoi movy 18-19 storichchia: Skovoroda-Shevchenko-Voronyi",, undated


Box 19 Folder 12 "Potebnia i standart ukrains'koi movy", 1991



Box 20 Folder 1 to 3 Prehistory of Slavic. The Historical phonology of common Slavic. Heidelberg, 1964 (galley proof), 1964


Box 20 Folder 4 "Pro chyslivnykovi konstruktsii i pro inshi rechi," 1996 (papers for 3-i mizhnarodnyi konhress ukrainistiv), 1996


Box 20 Folder 5 "Pro kryterii v pytanniakh ukrains'koho ofitsiinoho pravopysu", 1994


Box 20 Folder 6 "Problemy pokhodzhennia ukrains'koi movy", undated


Box 20 Folder 7 to 8 "Prolegomena do vyvchennia movy ta styliu H.Skovorody" (translated from English by Rostyslav Dotsenko), 1978 1994, 1978, 1994


Box 20 Folder 9 "Prolegomena to Studies of Skovoroda's Language and Style, 1994 (in English), 1994


Box 20 Folder 10 to 11 "Prosta cad and prostaja mova", New York, 1987 (typescript with holograph corrections), 1987



Box 21 Folder 1 "Pryntsypy i etapy bol'shevyts'koi movnoi polityky na Ukraini", undated


Box 21 Folder 2 "Ravena", undated


Box 21 Folder 3 "Recht auf Naivitat oder Jedermann's Programm in der Literatur: Aus franzosischen Neuerscheinungen",, undated


Box 21 Folder 4 [Skovoroda], 1944


Box 21 Folder 5 "Slovo na vidkrytti Shostoi shevchenkoznavchoi konferentsii", 1986


Box 21 Folder 6 "Some corrections in the traditional outline of the history of Russian",, undated


Box 21 Folder 7 "Taras Schewtschenko", undated


Box 21 Folder 8 "Tours and detours of Ukrainian official spelling", 1994


Box 21 Folder 9 [Tychyna], 1940-1941 (incomplete), 1940-1941


Box 21 Folder 10 "U dovhii cherzi: Problemy reabilitatsii", New York, 1990 (paper presented at Konhress Mizhnorodnoi assotsiatsii ukrainistiv; with related letters and other materials), 1990


Box 21 Folder 11 "U ne-Rembrandtovii galerei avtoportretiv: Trylohiia peredmov, do nykh pisliamova, nichoho poseredyni", (with related letters)


Box 21 Folder 12 "U nespokoi mysli", undated


Box 21 Folder 13 "Ukrains'ka mova v sebe vdoma siohodni i zavtra", 1986


Box 21 Folder 14 [Ukrains'kyi pravopys], 1990s


Box 21 Folder 15 "Vid Teofana Prokopovycha do Radishcheva: rysy "ideolohichnoho styliu" doby v rosiis'kii literature XVIII storichchia",, 1949-1950


Box 21 Folder 16 "Volodymyr Mykhailovych. Kil'ka rys do portretu", undated


Box 21 Folder 17 "Vsima hraniamy", undated


Box 21 Folder 18 "Z oboru ukrajinske etymologie", 1969


Box 21 Folder 19 "Zahybel' propashchoho pokolinnia: shtrykhy z istorii literaturnoho vidrodzhennia dvadtsiatykh rokiv na Ukraini"


Box 21 Folder 20 to 25 Untitled, various dates (including incomplete manuscript about Tychyna)


Books, 1948-1991 (with margin notes and inscriptions), 1948-1991



Box 22 Historical phonology of the Ukrainian language , 1979


Box 22 In and around Kiev , 1991


Box 22 Neues Theater? Betrachtungen zur modernen Dramatik, , 1948


Box 22 Prehistory of Slavic , 1964


Box 22 Syntax of modern literary Ukrainian , 1963



Box 23 Taras Sevcenko, 1814-1816. A symposium , 1962


Box 23 Teasers and appeasers , 1971


Off-prints and reprints, 1940-1986


Box 23 1940-1957 Publications bound in two volumes (Titles are listed here in the same order as they appear in the volumes), 1940-1957


Volume 1:


Box 23 "Towards historical dialectology: its delimitation of history of literary language",, 1954


Box 23 "Probleme der Bildung des Zahlwortes als Redeteil in den slavischen Sprachen",, 1953


Box 23 "Ueber die Besonderheiten der Sprache der Frauen", 1952


Box 23 Reviews. "Gunnar Herne. Die slawischen Farbenbenennungen; eine semasiologisch-etymologische Untersuchung"; "Horace G. Lunt. Old Church Slavonic grammar"; "L. Ladnik und R. Aitzetmuller. Handworterbuch zu den altkircshenslawischen Texten",, 1957


Box 23 "Tr't' - type roups and problem of Moravian components in Old Church Slavonic,, 1957


Box 23 "Ukrainien littéraire", 1956


Box 23 "On Slavic names for falls of Dnepr in "De Administrando Imperio" of Constantine porphyrogenitus",, 1955


Box 23 Reviews. "Ad. Stender- Petersen. Varangica", 1954


Box 23 "Konsonanten vor e, i in den protoukrainischen Dialekten", 1956


Box 23 Review. "Cecilia Borelius. Safonovičs Chronik im Codex AD 10 der Västeråsen Gymnasialbibliothek. Eine sprachliche Untersuchung", , 1952


Box 23 "Tradytsiia i novatorstvo v leksytsi i stylistytsi I. P. Kotliarevs'koho",, 1940


Box 23 "Iz sposterezhen' nad movoiu suchasnoi poezii", 1940


Box 23 "Zur Frage der Ukrainisch - Weissruthenischen Sprachgrenze",, 1953


Box 23 "Kost' Mychal'cuk (1841-1914) als Dialektologe", 1952


Box 23 Review. "Jar. Rudnyckyj. Die Lemberger Ukrainische Stadtmundart", , 1943


Box 23 "Problems in Formation of Belorussian", 1953


Box 23 "Stefan Yavorsky and conflict of ideologies in age of Peter I",, undated


Box 23 "Edvard Strikha: History of literary mystification", 1955


Box 23 "Las tendencias en la literatura Ucraniana. Bajo el dominio de los Soviets",, undated


Volume 2:


Box 23 "Zum Problem der Satzgliederung und Aussonderung der Redeteile",, 1952


Box 23 "Alexander Potebnja as linguist", 1956


Box 23 "Latent phoneme in making: affricate "з" in Slavic", 1955


Box 23 "Participium universale im Slavischen", 1953


Box 23 "New comparative grammar of Slavic languages", 1951


Box 23 "Important work in Ukrainian onomastics", 1952


Box 23 "Phonema Errans", 1950


Box 23 "Ukrainisches vantaž 'Ladung, Frachtgut, Last' and das Problem der 'Argot-Suffixe'",, 1954


Box 23 "On Slavic language interrelations. Ukrainian influence on Polish language in 16th and 17th centuries",, 1953


Box 23 "Коst' Mykhail'chuk", 1952


Box 23 "Study of Soviet Ukrainian literature", undated


Box 23 "On Teofan Prokopovič as writer and preacher in his Kiev period",, 1954


Box 23 Reviews. "Justina Besharov. Imagery of Igor' Tale in light of Byzantino-Slavic poetic theorym", , 1956


Box 23 Reviews. "Československá Akademie Věd, Ústav pro jazyk český, Slovník staročeský, pracovní zásady a ukázky hesel", , 1956


Box 23 Reviews. "Ján Stanislav. Dejiny slovenského jazyka i Úvod a hláskoslovie, , 1956


Box 23 Reviews. "S. Westfal. Study in Polish morphology. Genitive Singular Masculine", , 1956


Box 23 "Structure of root in modern Russian", 1957


Box 23 Review. "V. Vinogradov. Russkij jazyk. Grammatičeskoje učenie o slove",, 1947


Box 23 "Styl' politychnoi liryky P.H.Tychyny", undated


Box 23 "Vsevolod Hancov. Olena Kurilo", 1954


Box 23 Folder 1 Inclosures found in bound volumes of articles


1952-1986 (in alphabetical order):, 1952-1986


Box 23 Folder 2 "Alternative analysis of some language features of 'Merilo pravednoje'",, 1984


Box 23 Folder 2 "Belorussian versus Ukrainian: delimitation of texts before A.D. 1569",, 1974


Box 23 Folder 2 "Boris O. Unbegaun. September 4, 1898-March 4, 1973", 1973


Box 23 Folder 2 "Chronologie der Enstehung der ukrainischen Dialekte im Lichte der historischen Phonologie",, 1978


Box 23 Folder 2 "Dwie uwagi o slowianskim e", 1965


Box 23 Folder 3 "E [to] 'O ou 'O [to] E Dans les langues slaves de l'est?", 1964


Box 23 Folder 3 "Gospel of reims and the history of the Serbo-Croatian language", 1975


Box 23 Folder 3 "'Grammatik der kleinrussischen Munhdart' von Pavlovskij und ihr Autor",, 1958


Box 23 Folder 3 "Iazyk nadpisei na kreste Evfrosinii Polotskoi 1161 goda i nekotorye soobrazheniia o iazyke Rusi XII veka", 1986, 1161, 1986


Box 23 Folder 3 "Jesmi 'I am' and some verbal endings in Slavic", 1977


Box 23 Folder 4 "Kirschenslavischen elemente in der modernen Russischen literatursprache",, 1960


Box 23 Folder 5 "Leonid Vasil'ev and his work", 1972


Box 23 Folder 5 "Moravismen im Izbornik von 1076?" 1986, 1076?, 1986


Box 23 Folder 5 "Nazwiska slowianskie na -kevic", undated


Box 23 Folder 6 "Omega in the Codex Hankenstein: a hitherto unnoticed episode in the Ukrainian development o [to] i",, 1978


Box 23 Folder 6 "On predicaments, predictability and futurism in phonology", 1967


Box 23 Folder 6 "On the chronology of H and the new G in Ukrainian", 1977


Box 23 Folder 6 "On the history of a sound that has no history: F in the Ukrainian language",, 1977


Box 23 Folder 6 "On the lexical make-up for the Galician-Volhynian chronicle: an experiment in the comprehensive study of vocabulary followed by a few remarks on the literary language of Old Rus'",, 1968


Box 23 Folder 6 "On the polonisms in literary Ukrainian", 1975


Box 23 Folder 6 "On the problem of the participation of Y and I in the loss of Jers",, 1976


Box 23 Folder 6 "On the so-called signature of Queen Ann of France (1063)", 1978


Box 23 Folder 6 "Open syllable languages and their evolution: Common Slavic and Japanese",, 1969


Box 23 Folder 6 "Orzeczenia bezprodmiotowe odimieslowowe na -no, -to w jezyku polskim przed rokiem 1450",, undated



Box 24 Folder 1 "Pokolinnia dvadtsiatykh rokiv v ukrains'komu movnoznavstvi", 1962


Box 24 Folder 1 "Problem des ukrainischen Anteils an der Bildung der sussischen Schriftsprache Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts",, 1970


Box 24 Folder 1 "Probleme der Bildung des zahlwortes als redeteil in den slavischen sprachen",, 1952


Box 24 Folder 2 "Problems in the formation of Belorussian", 1953


Box 24 Folder 2 "Prothetic consonants in Common Slavic", 1963


Box 24 Folder 3 "Reader in the history of the Eastern Slavic Languages: Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian",, 1958


Box 24 Folder 4 "Remark on extra-systematic vowel length in Slavic: the cases of Ukrainian and Macedonian",, 1985


Box 24 Folder 4 "Remark on Intermedia dwoie published with Tragaedia albo wizerunk smierci Przeswietego Jana Chrzciciela Przeslanca Bozego by Jakub Gawatowic (1619)",, 1981


Box 24 Folder 5 "Some remarks on written records as a source of evidence for the historical phonology of the Middle Ukrainian language (1569-1720)",, undated


Box 24 Folder 5 "Tendency in language development: a remark on the erosion of the feminine i-stem substantives in the Ukrainian language",, 1983


Box 24 Folder 6 "Ukrainische shcriftsprache:1798-1965", 1966


Box 24 Folder 7 "Vasyl' Mova (Lymans'kyi)", 1967


Box 24 Folder 7 "Vicissitudes of a syntactic construction in Eastern Slavic", 1969


Box 24 Folder 8 "Weak Jers in Serbo-Croatian and South Slavic: developments in the word initial syllable",, 1965


Box 24 Folder 8 "Wechselwirkung von zwei Akzentuierungstypen der Partizipien Prateriti Passivi von Verben der 3. Klasse mit Infinitiv auf -at' in den slavischen Sprachen",, 1962


Box 24 Folder 8 "Why in Ukrainian sl'ozy 'tear' but zelenyj 'green', while in Russian sljozy and zeljonyj? An unresolved problem of Ukrainian historical phonology",, 1979


Box 24 Folder 8 "Z istorii ukrains'koho romantyzmu", 1966


Subseries II.3: Reviews, 1940s-1990s (see also Subseries II.2: Articles and Monographs--Off-prints and reprints bound in two volumes, Box 23), 1940s-1990s

Manuscripts and off-prints/reprints of reviews written by Shevel'ov. Manuscripts arranged alphabetically and printed reviews arranged in chronological order. Some reviews were bound along with articles and stored in Subseries II.2: Off-prints and reprints bound in two volumes.


Box 24 Folder 9 to 15 Manuscripts, 1940s-1990s (in alphabetical order), 1940s-1990s


Box 24 Folder 16 to 19 Off-prints and reprints, 1950s-1980s (in chronological order), 1950s-1980s


Subseries II.4: Fragments, undated

Contains fragments of various writings.



Box 25 Folder 1 to 4 Fragments of various writings


Subseries II.5: Poetry, 1926-1969

Holograph manuscripts and typescripts of Shevel'ov's original poetry and translations.


Box 25 Folder 5 to 6 Original poetry and translations (holograph manuscripts and typescripts)


Subseries II.6: Drafts, Notes, and Research Materials, 1930s-1990s

Drafts and notes on various subjects including teaching courses, linguistics, personalia, philosophy, theatre, and others. Organized by subject in alphabetical order. Research materials include books summaries, bibliography on various subjects, and clippings.


Box 25 Folder 7 to 8 Course outlines:


Box 25 Folder 7 Polish language, undated


Box 25 Folder 8 Ukrainian language, undated


Box 25 Folder 9 to 22 Linguistics, 1930s-1990s (lexis, syntax, phonology, spelling, punctuation, morphology, history of language. Arrange in alphabetical order), 1930s-1990s



Box 26 Folder 1 to 20 Linguistics (cont.)



Box 27 Folder 1 to 13 Personalia:


Box 27 Folder 1 Barka


Box 27 Folder 2 Buzuk


Box 27 Folder 3 Hnizdovs'kyi


Hulak-Artemovs'kyi: see Kvitka-Osnov'ianenko (Folder 7)


Box 27 Folder 3 Iefremov


Box 27 Folder 4 Koshelivets'


Box 27 Folder 4 Kostiuk


Box 27 Folder 5 Kotliarevs'kyi


Box 27 Folder 6 Kryms'kyi


Box 27 Folder 6 Kubiiovych


Box 27 Folder 7 Kvitka-Osnov'ainenko


Box 27 Folder 8 Shashkevych (see also Folder 11)


Box 27 Folder 9 to 12 Shevchenko


Box 27 Folder 13 Simovych


Box 27 Folder 13 Stus


Box 27 Folder 14 Philosophy


Box 27 Folder 15 Theatre


Box 27 Folder 16 to 19 Various subjects



Box 28 Folder 1 to 11 Various subjects (cont.)


Research materials:


Box 28 Folder 12 to 17 Bibliography on various subjects



Box 29 Folder 1 to 8 Books notes and summaries


Box 29 Folder 9 Clippings