Description:
The article is referred to semantic-syntactical homonymity of Dative case, associated with at least three
other cases in the context of disuse of the traditional for dative case flexion -ovi, -evi (-yevi).
These inflections are recommended in both The Orthography of 1928 and papers on Ukrainian grammar
of the first decades of the 20th century.
The reason of semantically different inflections -ові, -еві/-єві, -у/-ю to have acquired a lingual status of
equality is well-known – the pressure of the Russian language.
The change of monosemantic inflection -ові, -еві/-єві into -у/-ю in the dative case of a singular masculine
noun causes hyponyms in dative of:
– nominative (рекомендація професора);
– genitive case (довіра народу);
– vocative (зятю, Петровичу).
Consequently, in current conditions it is extremely necessary to accent in specialized grammar literature
(especially in school and university books) that inflections -у/-ю in the dative case of a singular noun are
accepted as an exception in the case of few masculine nouns with the inflections -ові, -еві/-єві to be before
the same noun.
