Academic Degree: Doct. of Philological Sc.

Academic Rank: Professor

Position: Prof.
Dr.,
 Department of Finno-Ugra Studies

Affiliation: Munich University

Contact Data:

skribnik@lmu.de

General Information:

Education and Training, Previous Employing Institutions

1975 — Novosibirsk State University

1979 — postgraduate courses, Lomonosov Moscow State University

1980–2001 — Department of Languages of Siberia, Institute of Philology of the RAS

From 1997 — Deputy Director.

1993–1994, 1997 — fellow of Gumboldt Foundation at the Institute of Finno-Ugric and Uralic Studies, Hamburg University.

1999, 2000 — guest lecturer of the DAAD in Munich and Hamburg.

Key Disciplines Taught:

Research Interests: Syntax typology, morphological syntax, documentation and description of endangered languages, socio-linguistics and ethnology of Uralic peoples of Siberia

List of Most Essential Works:

Monographs:

Skribnik E. K., Cheremisina M. I., Brodskaya L. M. The Predicative Declension of Participles in Altaic Languages. Novosibirsk, 1984. 192 p.

Skribnik E. K., Cheremisina M. I., Brodskaya L. M. The Structural Types of the Synthetic Polypredicative Constructions in Languages Belonging to Different Systems. Novosibirsk, 1986. 319 p.

Skribnik E. K. Polypredicative Synthetic Sentences in Buryat Language. Novosibirsk, 1988. 198 p.

Skribnik E. K. Bibliographia Sibirica. Finno-Ugristics and Samoyedology in scientific centres of Siberia. Specimina Sibirica. Vol. IX. Savariae, 1994. 197 p.

Sereedar N., Skribnik E., Cheremisina M. Structural and Semantic Organization of Sentences Indicating Presence, Location, Amount and Absence in Turkic Languages of Southern Siberia. Novosibirsk, 1996. 82 p.

Skribnik E., Darzhaeva N. Polypredicative Constructions Indicating Conditionality in Buryat. Ulan-Ude, 2007. 179 p.

Skribnik E. K., Darzhaeva N. B. The Buryat Grammar. Syntax of Complex (Polypredicative) Sentence. Vol. 1. Ulan-Ude, 2016. 315 p.

Training Materials:

Skribnik E. K., Lavrentyev A. M. General Linguistics. The Course Programme. Plan of Seminars. Novosibirsk, 2001. 56 p.

Skribnik E., Afanasjeva K. The Workplace Mansi Language. Part 1. Novosibirsk, 2004. 107 p.

Skribnik E., Afanasjeva K. The Workplace Mansi Language. Part 1-2. Khanti-Mansijsk, 2007.

In Vorbereitung: Bakró-Nady, Marianne – Laakso, Johanna – Skribnik, Elena (Hg.) The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages. OUP.

Articles:

Skribnik E. Buryat evaluative constructions. In: Evidence and Counter-evidence, Vol. II. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics 33. Amsterdam – New-York, 2007.

Nedjalkov V. P., Skribnik E. K., Kuzmenkov E. A., Yakhontova N. S. Reciprocal, sociative, comitative and assistive constructions in Khalkha-Mongol and Buryat. In: Vladimir P. Nedjalkov (Ed.): Typology of reciprocal constructions. Typological Studies in Language, 71. Vol. 3. Philadelphia, 2007. P. 1281–1348.

Skribnik E. Die Nominalisatoren „Mensch” und „Ding” in den uralischen und türkischen Sprachen Südsibiriens: I, Lexikon und Wortbildung. Finnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen. 2009. № 32/33. P. 567–586.

Skribnik E. The Opposition “Concordance / Discordance with Expectations” in Buryat Complex Sentence. Sravnitel’no-istoričeskoe jazykoznanie: Altaistika. Tjurkologija. Moscow, 2009. P. 121–124.

Skribnik E., Seesing O. Kalmückische analytische Verbalkonstruktionen mit dem Perfektpartizip: Evidentialis und Mirativ. In: Per Urales ad Orientem. Iter polyphonicum multilingue. Festskrift tillägnad Juha Janhunen på hans sextioårsdag den 12 februar 2012. Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 264. Helsinki, 2012. S. 409–424.

Skribnik E., Seesing O. Towards a description of evidentiality and mirativity in Kalmyk. Voprosy jazykoznanija. 2012. No. 4. P. 39–72.

Skribnik E., Seesing O. Evidentiality in Kalmyk. – Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R.M.W. Dixon (eds.) Grammar of Knowledge: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Explorations in Linguistic Typology 7. Oxford, 2014. P. 148–170.

Skribnik E. South Siberian Turkic languages in linguistic contact: Altay-kiži nominalizer constructions as a test case. In: Juliane Besters-Dilger, Cynthia Dermarkar, Stefan Pfänder & Achim Rabus (eds.) Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change: Language Families, Typological Resemblance, and Perceived Similarity. De Gruyter, 2014. P. 258–274.

Skribnik E. K., Shon Zh., Yanda G. E., Viziorek A., Snigirev Yu., Eckmann Sh. The Ob’-Ugra Database: Textual Corporas and Dictionaries of Ob’-Ugra Dialects. Issues and Perspectives of Social-Economic and Ethnocultural Development of Indigenous Minorities of the North: Collection of Papers of the Scientific-Research Conference with International Participation Dedicated to the 25^th Anniversary of the Ob’-Ugra Institute of Applied Research and Development (Khanty-Mansiysk, 25 November 2016). Part 1: Philological Research. Tyumen, 2017. P. 230–243.

Skribnik E., Kehayov P. Evidentials in Uralic languages. In: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality. OUP. 2018. P. 525–553.

Brosig B., Skribnik E. Evidentiality in Mongolic. In: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality. OUP. 2018. P. 554–579.