Linguistic ideology and Language Changes in Contemporary Ukrainian Grammar and Lexis

The codification of most, if not all literary languages, both in antiquity and in modern times, can be viewed, to a greater or lesser extent, as the result of ideological constructs. Linguistic or language ideology is in fact highly interdependent with the history of national languages, which in their turn, and especially in past centuries, have often coincided with the history of literary languages (...).During its long and often tormented standardization history Ukrainian, like many other languages, was not immune from ideological intrusion. Ideology in language is directly connected with standardization and often associated with the phenomenon of language purism . In the case of Ukrainian both tendencies are interrelated. Therefore, before analyzing contemporary interventions on Ukrainian, some salient aspects of its standardization will be first discussed in the next section.