The Department of General Linguistics

  • About the Department
  • History of the department
  • Employees
  • Teaching materials
  • Lecturers' schedule
  • News

Employees

Chairperson, Professor (by-worker)Florij BATSEVYCHChairperson, Professor (by-worker)
ProfessorSolomija BukProfessor
Associate ProfessorLarysa HONTARUKAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorSvitlana HRYHORUKAssociate Professor
LecturerOksana YasinovskaLecturer

Lecturers' schedule



Teaching materials

Yasinovska O.
https://www.academia.edu/70329269/Ясіновська_Оксана_Наукова_робота_студентів_лінгвістів
Buk S. Osnovy statystychnoi linhvistyky: Navchal’no-metodychnyi posibnyk/ Vidp. Red. Prof. F. S. Batsevych. Vydavnychyi tsentr LNU imeni Ivana Franka, 2008. 124 s. / Buk S. Fundamentals of statistical linguistics: Textbook/ Resp. Ed. Prof. F. Batsevych. Ivan Franko Lviv National University Publishing Center, 2008. P. 124)
https://victana.lviv.ua/biblioteka/98-matematychna-linhvistyka/462-buk-s-n-osnovy-statystychnoi-linhvistyky
Matsyuk Halyna.Multicultural Aspects of Names and Naming in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: The Thematic Group “the Names of New Saints” //Names and Naming/ Multicultural Aspects. Ed. Oliviu Felecan, Alina Bughesiu. Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. Co-author. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-73186-1_5
Sociolinguistics. Integrative research direction. Academic discipline. Collective monograph. Lviv, 2021. – 280 p. Ed. Halyna Matsyuk (in the Ukrainian language). http://dspace.lnulibrary.lviv.ua/handle/123456789/162
Matsyuk Halyna. A course towards the Ukrainianization of the church. Why was it ineffective in the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) 1917-1918? / / Language in Society: Semantics, Syntax, Pragmatics / Ed. Halyna Matsyuk, Irena Mytnik, Olena Novikova. Part 1 – Warsaw-Lviv-Munich, Wydawnictwo KUL.-2019 (in the Ukrainian language). http://dspace.lnulibrary.lviv.ua/handle/123456789/162
Matsyuk Halyna. Security dimention of modern education and new requirements for the content of linguistics disciplines at the philological faculties of higher education institutions// Strategic directions of development of modern linguodidactics: monograph / Edited by E.Palykhata, O.Petryshyna. Ternopil, 2021. P.68-76. Co-author. (in the Ukrainian language) http://194.44.132.109/bitstream/123456789/19633/1/7_Matsiuk.pdf (co-author)
Matsyuk Halyna. Conversion to orthodoxy as social phenomenon and category of historical sociolinguistics // StudiaUkrainіcaVarsoviensia –Warszawa, 2019.-t.7. C23-33. https://wuw.pl/data/include/cms/Studia_Ucrainica_2019_7.pdf (in the Ukrainian language)
Halyna Matsyuk. Marking Ukrainiane’s public space as interaction of language and ideology: past and present// Name and Naming. Sacred and Profane in Onomastics. Ed. By Oliviu Felecan.-Cluj-Napoca, Editura Mega, Editura Argonavt, 2017.-p.889-900 DOI: 10.30816/ICONN4/2017772 http://onomasticafelecan.ro/iconn4/proceedings/4_16_Matsyuk_Halyna_ICONN_4.pdf

History of the department

The Department of General Linguistics is a leading educational and research centre of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics in Ukraine.

The Department was established at the Faculty of Philology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv as a separate educational and scientific unit in 1939. The Department continues developing university traditions of the Departments of Indo-European Linguistics (1910–1917), Comparative Linguistics and Indo-European Studies (1917-1927), and Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (1927–1939).

Nowadays, the Department trains specialists (Bachelors, Masters, PhDs) in the major “Applied Linguistics” in the context of communication studies and sociolinguistics. Teachers of the Department also work with students who specialize in Ukrainian Studies, Slavic Studies, and Oriental Studies, covering theoretical problems of linguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics and other areas of modern language science.

Teachers of the Department conduct a wide range of theoretical, methodological, applied research in the field of general linguistics (Floriy Batsevych), sociolinguistics (Halyna Matsiuk), text theory (Floriy Batsevych, Solomiia Buk, Liubov Protsak, Svitlana Hryhoruk), cognitive linguistics and  linguoconceptology (Svitlana Martinek, Oksana Yasinovska, Larysa Hontaruk), semantics and pragmatics (Floriy Batsevych, Halyna Matsiuk, Larysa Hontaruk, Oksana Yasinovska), corpus linguistics (Solomiia Buk), translation studies (Svitlana Hryhoruk). The Department organizes a myriad of international, national and regional scientific conferences, annual national contests of student research papers in sociolinguistics.

The Department maintains close ties with the scientific centers of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics in Belgium, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, and France.

Lviv University Linguists Unlock the Power of AI: Training on Large Language Models Completed in Jena, Germany

02.07.2025 | 14:04

Four lecturers from the Faculty of Philology at Lviv University have successfully completed the training and met the requirements of the academic and pedagogical course “Large Language Models for Linguists,” organized by Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany). The course was part of the DAAD-funded programme “Ukraine Digital: Ensuring Academic Success in Times of Crisis (2024–2025)”.
Participants acquired advanced competencies and practical expertise in using large language models (LLMs) as indispensable tools for organizing and analyzing linguistic data. They mastered prompt and...

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International scientific conference “The Philological Phenomenon of Petro Kostruba: A New Reading”

28.05.2025 | 22:06

International scientific conference “The Philological Phenomenon of Petro Kostruba: A New Reading” (Lviv, May 22–23, 2025) represented a landmark in Slavic and Ukrainian philological studies. Focused on reinterpreting the intellectual legacy of Petro Kostruba—a pivotal figure in 20th-century Ukrainian linguistics and literary thought—it gathered scholars from seven countries.
The main objective of the conference was to provide a new interpretation of the scholarly legacy of Associate Professor Petro Kostruba, to bring him back into the academic discourse and to reactivate that...

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“Reconceptualising the Teaching of Linguistic Disciplines in Higher Education in the Context of War: Experiences of Designing and Implementing the University Course ‘Digital Technologies for the Ukrainian Language'”

01.05.2025 | 21:46

“Reconceptualising the Teaching of Linguistic Disciplines in Higher Education in the Context of War: Experiences of Designing and Implementing the University Course ‘Digital Technologies for the Ukrainian Language'”
 
It was a presentaion at the German and Slavic Studies IІI International multidisciplinary conference Resilience in Education Amid War and Global Challenges: Ukrainian Perspective (Winnipeg, Canada) by professor of the Department of General Linguistics Solomij Buk.
In the context of war, digital technologies become not only a tool for the survival of education, but...

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The Lexical Base of the Ukrainian Language as a Basis for the Vocabulary Component of the National Standard

05.03.2025 | 22:26

The Lexical Base of the Ukrainian Language as a Basis for the Vocabulary Component of the National Standard – this was the topic of the presentation given by Professor of the Department of General Linguistics S. N. Buk at the invitation of the National Commission for State Language Standards (https://mova.gov.ua). In 2024 the Commission became an associate member of the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) in order to study the European experience in the organisation of certification examinations...

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