Academic Degree: Doct. of Philological Sc.

Academic Rank:  Professor, Corresponding Member of the RAS

Position: Head of Department of Ural-Altaic languages

Affiliation: Institute of Linguistics of the RAS

Contact Data:

adybo@iling-ran.ru

General Information:

Education and Training, Previous Employing Institutions

1981 — graduated from Department of Structural and Applied Linguistics, then — postgraduate courses in the Institute of Linguistics of the RAS.

Doctor of Sciences degree (1992, theme of degree work ‘Semantic Reconstruction in Altaic Etymology’).

2008 — corresponding member of the RAS.

From 1981 till present — Institute of Linguistics of the RAS

Nowadays — Head of Department of Ural-Altaic languages of the Institute of Linguistics of the RAS and professor of the Center of Comparative Studies (Institute of Oriental Cultures, Russian State Humanitarian University).

Key Disciplines Taught:

Comparative historical linguistics — a basic theoretical course read at Department of Structural and Applied Linguistics of the Faculty (later Institute) of Linguistics (Russian State Humanitarian University) from 1994.

Comparative historical grammar of Indo-European languages, Methods of etymology studies, Introduction to Altaic studies — Turkic studies, Introduction to Altaic studies — Mongolian studies, Introduction to Altaic studies — Tungus-Manchu studies, Introduction to Altaic studies — History of Korean language, Introduction to comparative historical grammar of Roman languages, Theoretical grammar of Turkish, Introduction to Nostratic linguistics, Methods of historical semantic research, Dialectology of Korean, Dialectology of Turkic languages,  Introduction to comparative historical studies of Slavic languages — courses read at Institute of Linguistics and Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies (Russian State Humanitarian University).

Organizer and head of specialities Linguistic Comparative Studies, Turkic Philology affirmed at Russian State Humanitarian University from 2002, a master degree program Comparative Historical Linguistics — Indo-European Studies.

Also was a guest lecturer in Novosibirsk, Baku, Washington State Universities.

Research Interests: Comparative historical linguistics, etymology, comparative historical phonetics, semantic typology, ethnolinguistics, Altaic studies, Uralic studies, Slavic studies, Indo-European studies, Nostratic studies.

List of Most Essential Works:

Author of more 130 publications (in Russian, English, French, German, Turkish), including 11 monographs and dictionaries.

Monographs:

Dybo A. V. Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages. Vol. 9 (additional). Etymological Dictionary of Basic Vocabulary of Turkic Languages. Astana, 2013.

Dybo A. V. Linguistic Contacts of Early Turks. Lexical Fund. Pre-Turkic Period. Moscow, 2007.

Tenishev E. R., Blagova G. F., Dobrodomov I. G., Dybo A. V., Kormushin I. V., Mudrak O. A., Musaev K. M., Nasilov D. M., Normanskaya Yu. V., Tadinova R. A., Ekba Z. N. Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages. Pre-Turkic Language as Basis. Worldview of Pre-Turks. Moscow, 2006.

Levitskaya L. S., Dybo A. V., Blagova G. F., Rassadin V. I., Nasilov D. M., Potseluevsky E. A. Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages. Vol. 7. Common Turkic and Inter-Turkic Stems Beginning on L, M, N, P, S. Moscow, 2003.

Starostin S. A., Dybo A. V., Mudrak O. A. Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic languages. In 3 vol. Leiden, Brill, 2003.

Dybo A. V., Anikin A. E., Pichkhadze A. A., Sabenina A. S, et al. New in Russian Etymology. I. Moscow, 2003.

Tenishev E. R., Blagova G. F., Grunina E. A., Dybo A. V., Kormushin I. V., Levitskaya L. S., Nasilov D. M., Mudrak O. A., Musaev K. M., Chechenov A. A. Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages. Regional Constructions. Moscow, 2002.

Levitskaya L. S., Dybo A. V., Rassadin V. I. Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages. Common Turkic and Inter-Turkic Stems Beginning on K. Moscow, 2000.

Tenishev E. R., Blagova G. F., Dobrodomov I. G., Dybo A. V., Kormushin I. V., Levitskaya L. S., Mudrak O. A., Musaev K. M. Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages. Vocabulary. Moscow, 1997. 2^nd ed.: Moscow, 2001.

Levitskaya L. S., Dybo A. V., Rassadin V. I. Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages. Common Turkic and Inter-Turkic Stems Beginning on K–Ka. Moscow, 1997.

Dybo A. V. Semantic Reconstruction in Altaic Etymology. Somatic Terms. Moscow, 1996.

Articles:

Dybo A. V. Les recherches turcologiques de Polivanov; Les travaux turcologiques et altaïstiques de E. D Polivanov // Evgenij Polivanov : penser le langage au temps de Staline, Paris, 2013. P. 218-233; 274-289.

Dybo A. V. O. N. Böhtlingk and Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages. I. O. N. Böhtlingk and Issues of Turkic Philology. Proceedings of the Russian Scientific Conference named ‘O. N. Böhtlingk and Turkic Linguistics. To the 160^th anniversary of his ‘About the language of Yakuts’’ (Yakutsk, 23–24 July 2011). Yakutsk, 2013. P. 5–13.

Dybo A. V. The Issue of Pre-Turkic *e ~ *ẹ Opposition Represented in Enisey Runic Monuments. Turkic Runic Script: Language, History, Culture. Proceedings of the International Conference. Kyzyl, 2013. P. 9–15.

Dybo A. V. Language and Archeology: some methodological problems. Voprosy yazykovogo rodstva. 2013. No. 9. P. 69–92.

Dybo A. V., Normanskaya Yu. V. The worldview of Pre-Samodians According to Linguistic Data. Vestnik Rossijskogo gumanitarnogo nauchnogo fonda. 2012. No 1. P. 107–117.

Dybo A. V., Normanskaya Yu. V. To the Issue of the Earliest Samodian–Tungus Lexical Relations (names of animals). Man and Nature in the Altaic World. Proceedings of the 49^th Permanent International Altaistic Conference (Berlin, July 30 – Aug. 4, 2006). P. 101–118.

Dybo A. V. Bulgar Palatalizations Represented in Bulgarisms in Hungarian. Chuvash Language and Peoples in Eurasian Civilization’s History. Proceedings of the International Conference. Cheboksary, 2011. P. 10–21.

Dybo A. V. Eski Türkçede Patlamalı Diş Ünsüzler. Türk Dili Araştırmaları Belleten. Ankara, 2011. P. 15–58.

Dybo A. V. On the Issue of Morphological Systems’ Reconstruction for Agglutinative Languages. Slovoobrazovanie v tyurkskih yazykah: issledovaniya i problemy. Kazan’, 2011. P. 15–58.

Balanovsky O., Dibirova K., Frolova S., Kuznetsova M., Radzhabov M., Balaganskaya O., Romanov A., Zakharova T., Balanovska E., Dybo A., Mudrak O., Pocheshkhova E., Haber M., Zalloua P., Platt D., Schurr T., Haak W., Soria Hernanz D. F., Wells R. S., Koshel S. et al. Parallel Evolution of Genes and Languages in the Caucasus Region // Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2011. Т. 28. № 10. С. 2905–2920.

Dybo A. V. Semantic Reconstruction in Altaic Etymology: a Vocabulary of a Certain Dictionary. Slovo i yazyk. Мoscow, 2011. P. 359–391.