Vladimir Antonovich Dybo (russian: Влади́мир Анто́нович Дыбо́; born 30 April 1931) is a Soviet and Russian linguist,

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in Philological Sciences (1979),

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(1992),

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of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

(2011). A specialist in comparative historical linguistics and

accentology Accentology involves a systematic analysis of word or phrase stress. Sub-areas of accentology include Germanic accentology, Balto-Slavic accentology, Indo-European accentology, and Japanese accentology. See also *Proto-Slavic accent Proto-Slavic ...

, he is well-known as one of the founders of the

Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics The Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics (also called the Nostratic School) is a school of linguistics based in Moscow, Russia that is known for its work in . Formerly based at Moscow State University, it is currently centered at the (Institut ...

Biography

Dybo graduated from the Department of Russian language and Literature of the Faculty of History and Philology of State University of Gorky (1954) and

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at the department of common and comparative linguistics of the Faculty of Philology of

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. Since 1958, he has been working at the Institute for Slavic Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RAS): senior scientific and technical

research fellow A research fellow is an academic research position at a university or a similar research institution, usually for academic staff or faculty members. A research fellow may act either as an independent investigator or under the supervision of a pr ...

, junior research fellow, senior research fellow, leading research fellow; At present, he is the chief researcher at the Department of Slavic Linguistics. In 1962, he received his

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at the Institute of Slavic Studies on ''The problem of correlation of two Balto-Slavic series of accentual correspondences in a verb''. In 1979, he received his

doctoral degree A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

on ''Experience in the reconstruction of the system of Proto-Slavic accent paradigms''. On May 26, 2000, he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Literature and Language (Linguistics). Since December 22, 2011 is full member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences.

Positions

Dybo is director of the Center for Comparative Studies, Institute of Oriental Cultures and Antiquities,

Russian State University for the Humanities The Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH, RGGU; russian: Росси́йский госуда́рственный гуманита́рный университе́т, РГГУ, translit=Rossijskij gosudarstvennyj gumanitarnyj universit ...

; gives lectures ''Comparative grammar of Slavic languages (Proto-Slavic reconstruction)''; ''Slavic comparative historical accentology''; ''Baltic comparative historical accentology''; ''Typology and Genesis of paradigmatic accent systems''. He directs postgraduates and doctoral students; under his leadership, 7 candidate dissertations and 2 doctoral dissertations were successfully defended. He is the editor-in-chief of the ''

Journal of Language Relationship The ''Journal of Language Relationship'' (abbreviated ''JLR''; Russian: Вопросы языкового родства) is a quarterly academic journal published in both Russia and the United States. It focuses on historical linguistics, with ma ...

'', and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal ''Topics in the study of language''. He is also a member of the Academic Council of the

and the Dissertation Council in the specialties comparative

historical History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

and typological linguistics and languages of Asia, Africa, the natives of Australia and America in the same place. Additionally, Dybo is a full member of the

Russian Academy of Natural Sciences The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences ( Russian: Российская академия естественных наук) is a Russian non-governmental organization founded on August 31 1990 in Moscow in the former Soviet Union, following a de ...

(1992). Dybo is also the Chairman of the Moscow Linguistic Society, organizer of the

Vladislav Illich-Svitych Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych (russian: Владисла́в Ма́ркович И́ллич-Сви́тыч, also transliterated as Illič-Svityč; September 12, 1934 – August 22, 1966) was a Soviet linguist and accentologist. He was a fo ...

Nostratic Seminar. He was awarded the medal ''In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow''.

Scientific research

The author of about 200 scientific publications, including 7

monographs A monograph is a specialist work of writing (in contrast to reference works) or exhibition on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author or artist, and usually on a scholarly subject. In library cataloging, ''monograph ...

. His main works are devoted to comparative historical grammar of Slavic,

Baltic Baltic may refer to: Peoples and languages * Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian *Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originati ...

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

Indo-European The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutc ...

and

Nostratic Nostratic is a controversial hypothetical macrofamily, which includes many of the indigenous language families of Eurasia, although its exact composition and structure vary among proponents. It typically comprises Kartvelian languages, Kartvelian ...

languages, comparative historical

and historical typology of accent systems, accentology of Northwest Caucasian languages and Central Saharan languages, and Japanese. He made a significant contribution (along with

, Sergei Nikolaev,

Andrey Zaliznyak Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak ( rus, Андре́й Анато́льевич Зализня́к, p=zəlʲɪˈzʲnʲak; 29 April 1935 – 24 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, an expert in historical linguistics, accentology, dialect ...

) to the reconstruction of the ancient Balto-Slavic accent system. Dybo developed the theory of distant kinship of languages and reconstruction of paleoculture based on language data. He is one of the most authoritative specialists in these fields in Russia and in the world. In particular, he built for the first time a coherent and coherent concept of Slavic comparative historical accentology, as well as a typology of paradigmatic accent systems. He manages a number of projects under grants from the

Russian Foundation for Basic Research Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) is a national science funding body of the Russian government created on 27 April 1992 by Decree of the President of Russia. Activities The Russian Foundation for Basic Research financially sponso ...

and Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation, and coordinates the work on the collective work ''Fundamentals of Slavic accentology'' under the program of fundamental research of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Family

His wife, Valeria Churganova (1931–1998), and daughter,

Anna Dybo Anna Vladimirovna Dybo (russian: Анна Владимировна Дыбо, born June 4, 1959) is a Russian linguist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and co-author (with Sergei Starostin) of the '' Etymological Dictionary of the Altai ...

(born 1959), are also well-known linguists.

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