George Shevelov, Ukrainian-American linguist and philologist (born 1908)

George Shevelov

Ukrainian-American linguist (1908–2002)

George Shevelov was a Ukrainian and American professor, linguist, philologist, essayist, literary historian, and literary critic. A longtime professor of Slavic philology at Columbia University, he challenged the prevailing notion of a unified East Slavic language from which…