User:AnnaKrach/Khobzey Nataliya Vasylivna

Nataliya Vasylivna Khobzey ( born May 24, 1964 – died August 21, 2018, Lviv) is a Ukrainian linguist (dialectologist, lexicographer, lexicologist, ethnolinguist), Сandidate of Philological Sciences, Head of the Ukrainian language department of the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, and an author of the fundamental lexicions.

Biography
Nataliya Khobzey graduated from the faculty of Philology at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Later, in 1995, she obtained her candidate of science (PhD equivalent) in the department of historical lexicography. While writing her dissertation on “The mythological vocabulary of the Ukrainian dialects in the Carpathian area”, under the supervision of Doctor of Philological Sciences Professor Yaroslava Zakrevska, Nataliya Khobzey was already working in the Ukrainian language department of the Institute of Ukrainian Studies named after I. Krypiakevych in Lviv.

Nataliya Khobzey first joined the Institute as a research fellow, and afterwards as the Head of the Ukrainian language department. She was married to Mr. Pavlo Khobzey, Deputy Minister of Education and Sciences of Ukraine.

She died suddenly on August 21, 2018. Natalia Khobzey is buried in a family grave on the Lychakiv cemetery

Scholarly achievements and public activities
Nataliya Khobzey was the Head of the linguistic commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, member of ethnolinguistic and dialectologist commission of the International committee of slavists.

She was also member of the editorial board of serial editions in Poland, such as «Gwary dziś», «Studia Łomżyńskie».

Nataliya Khobzey was also actively working as an editor. She prepared and published  following list of works:

"Argo in Ukraine" (2006) is a reissue of the diaspora edition of the dissertation, written in 1995 by the well known Ukrainian linguist Oleksa Horbach.

"The regional Transnistrian dictionary" (2008) by Havrylo Shylo, based on the considerable volume of lexical card indexes, preserved in the dialectological deparment of the NASU Institute of Ukrainian Language.

She made huge impact on development of the Ukrainian language abroad. She was also a founder and responsible editor of scientific collection of “The dialectological studies”, serial edition of ”The dialectological chest”, head of editorial collegiate of serial collections “The history of language”, member of editorial board of magazine “The mythology and folklore”

Publications
Nataliya Khobzey has authored more than 100 scholarly works in dialectology, lexicon, and ethnolinguistics. Many of her works were dedicated to the study of the hutsul dialect of the Ukrainian language. Hence, she is a co-author of a short vocabulary “The Hutsulian dialect” (1997), a compiler of the ethnolinguistic vocabulary “The Hutsulian mythology” (2002), and also a responsible editor of such works as “Treasures of the Hutsulian dialect” (2008), “Berezovy ” by Mykola Negrych, and “Rosishka” by Mykola Hrytsak. Together with O. Simovych, T. Yastremska, and H. Dydyk-Meush, Nataliya Khobzey was one of the co-authors of the book “The Lviv Lexicon: seriously and for fun”,  which was recognised as the best book at the Lviv Publisher's Forum 2009.

She also inspired and became a co-author of a dictionary “The Hutsulian Worlds. Lexicon” (2013).

Recognitions
In 2014 Nataliya Khobzey was awarded with the Certificate of Honor by the Presidium and also by Central Committee of the Scientist's Trade Union of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which recognized Professor Khobzey’s many years of prolific work as a scientist-linguist, her significant achievements in the professional field, as well as her personal contribution to the development of scholarly research in the Ukrainian dialectology and lexicography. .