On November 23-24, the Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine organized the International Scientific Conference “Grammatic Portrait of the Ukrainian Language in the 21st Century”, dedicated to the anniversary of Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Grammar and Scientific Terminology Kateryna Hryhorivna Horodenska.

Director of the Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, doctor of philological sciences, professor Pavlo Yukhimovych Hrytsenko solemnly opened the conference with a welcome speech.

The work of the conference began with the first plenary session, at which the following gave their reports: Kateryna Hryhorivna Horodenska “Verb formations in the modern Ukrainian communicative space: new phenomena and long-standing unsolved problems”, Pavlo Yukhymovich Hrytsenko “Prepositions in the grammatical portrait of Ukrainian dialects”, Yermolenko Svitlana Yakivna “Typology of rhetorical questions in Lina Kostenko’s novel “Notes of the Ukrainian Self-made Man”, Yevgenia Anatolyivna Karpilovska “Criteria for determining the national character of the Ukrainian word” and others. At the second plenary session, the following presented their scientific research: Shabat-Savka Svitlana Tarasivna “Syntax of a monosyllabic sentence in the context of the scientific studies of Kateryna Horodenska”, Lyudmila Volodymyrivna Shytyk “Conceptual principles of compiling a grammatical dictionary of syncretic conjunctions”, Boyko Nadiya Ivanivna “Grammatic horizons of Professor Kateryna Horodenska” , Tetyana Leonidovna Khomych “The problem of the word-formation norm in K.G. Horodenskaya’s research work” and others.

Section meetings were held on November 24: Section 1 – Problems of theoretical and applied morphology of the Ukrainian literary language of the 21st century”; Section 2 – Syntactic norms in the structural and functional-stylistic paradigm of the Ukrainian literary language of the 21st century”; Section 3 – The latest trends in the development of the word-forming system of the Ukrainian literary language. At the 4th section “Problems of Ukrainian lexicology and lexicography in the context of grammatical theory”, the scientists of Vasyl Stefanyk Prykarpattia National University gave their report “Conjugates in the dictionary “Hutsul dialect vocabulary and phraseology in the Ukrainian artistic language”: Doctor of Philological Sciences, professor of the Department of Ukrainian Language, Vasyl Hreshchuk Valentyna Vasylovych, candidate of philological sciences, assistant professor of the Department of Ukrainian Language, director of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Ukrainian Studies Greshchuk Valentyna Vasylivna Interesting scientific discussions concluded the work of each section.

At the final meeting of the International Scientific Conference “Grammatic Portrait of the Ukrainian Language in the 21st Century”, the main aspects of the linguistic problems touched upon in the reports were discussed, and the conference resolution was adopted.

The participants of the conference wished creative inspiration and the realization of all ideas to the dear jubilee Kateryna Hryhorivna Horodenska.