Pavlo Yuhymovych Hrytsenko ( ua, Павло Юхимович Гриценко; born September 23, 1950) is a Ukrainian

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

, doctor of

Philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

, professor, director of Institute for the Ukrainian Language (

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

). Born in Matroska,

Izmail Raion Izmail Raion ( uk, Ізмаїльський район ; ; bg, Измаилски район; ro, Raionul Ismail) is a raion (administrative division) in Odesa Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. Its administrative center is the town of Izmail. It ...

Odesa Oblast Odesa Oblast ( uk, Оде́ська о́бласть, translit=Odeska oblast), also referred to as Odeshchyna ( uk, Оде́щина) is an oblast (province) of southwestern Ukraine, located along the northern coast of the Black Sea. Its administr ...

, Ukraine. Hrytsenko is a specialist in dialectology of the

Ukrainian language Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state langu ...

, typology of Slavic dialect systems, theory of

linguistic geography Language geography is the branch of human geography that studies the geographic distribution of language(s) or its constituent elements. Linguistic geography can also refer to studies of how people talk about the landscape. For example, toponymy i ...

, dialectal textology and textography, history of linguistics. He is a co-executor of ''The Slavic Linguistic Atlas'', vol. 3, 4а, 4б, 5, 6, 8 (1994–2009). Hrytsenko is the initiator of a research for dialects in the

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, Belarusian: Хона адчужэння Чарнобыльскай АЭС, ''Zona adčužennia Čarnobyĺskaj AES'', russian: Зона отчуждения Чернобыльской АЭС ...

. He is a head of base preparation for Ukrainian dialects dictionary. Hrytsenko is the member of some international groups of International Committee of Slavists (The Slavic Linguistic Atlas Group, Ethnolinguistics Group), member of editorial board of '' The Slavic Linguistic Atlas''. Hrytsenko is the author of over 400 publications in

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

and others

Slavic languages The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Ear ...

External links

* Професор Павло Юхимович Гриценко. Матеріали до бібліографії вчених. — Черкаси, 2010. — 110 с. * ''Н. П. Прилипко.'
Гриценко Павло Юхимович
// :uk:Українська мова (енциклопедія). — К.: Українська енциклопедія, 2007.
Гриценко Павло Юхимович
// :uk:Енциклопедія Сучасної України (

Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ( uk, Енциклопедія Сучасної України (ЕСУ), translit=Entsyklopediia Suchasnoi Ukrainy (ESU)), abbreviated EMU, is a multi-Volume (bibliography), volume national encyclopedia of Ukraine. ...

). * * 1950 births Linguists from Ukraine Living people Ukrainianists Linguists of Ukrainian {{authority control