IVAN FRANKO’S ACTIVITY IN THE FORMATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC STYLE OF THE UKRAINIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE

Анотація

There is a widespread opinion in linguistics that the scientific style of the Ukrainian language began to take shape only at the beginning of the 20^th century. At the same time, the scientific works of P. Kulish, I. Nechuy-Levytskyi, M. Drahomanov in the Dnipro region, as well as the active activity of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv, the publications “Notes of the Shevchenko Scientific Society” and “Literary-Scientific Herald”, which played a considerable role in the development of the Ukrainian scientific language, are neglected. N. Zelinska claims that the process of academic style stabilization was not “impersonal” – vice versa, …because of the fact that Ukrainian science of that time…was created by strong, literary gifted language personalities, – and in academic-humanitarian sphere practically all of them were writers, – Ukrainian academic style on the early stage was formed as an esthetic notion, and, contrary to unified style of later years, was clearly individualized” [6 : 127].