Natalia Nikolaevna Shirobokova and her contribution to the study of Tuvan language

• Main Authors: Mira V. Bavuu-Surun, Bajlak Ch. Oorzhak, Aelita Ya. Salchak
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Novye Issledovaniâ Tuvy 2016
• Subjects: Н. Н. Широбокова; Институт филологии СО РАН; кафедра языков и фольклора народов Сибири; новосибирская лингвистическая научная школа; тувинское языкознание; Communities. Classes. Races; HT51-1595; Tuva; Yakut; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/d98695b72b624b94b35597083d8e53b8

The article examines the contribution to the study of Tuvan language made by Natalia Nikolaevna Shirobokova - a leading Russian linguist specializing in Turkic languages of Siberia. January 2016 marked her 70th birthday and the 50th anniversary of her scholarly and pedagogical work. N.N. Shirobokova is one of the leading scholars in Novosibirsk school of linguistics, which focuses on theoretical and practical studies of Siberian languages. Professor Shirobokova was among the first to train professional linguists from among indigenous peoples of Siberia. Her disciples have had successful careers at Siberia’s universities and research institutions. She was directly involved in the creation of the Department of languages and folklore of peoples of Siberia at Novosibirsk University. Since its inception in 1991, she has chaired the department which is open for students of Siberia’s ethnic educational institutions. They can major at the School of Humanities, Novosibirsk University, and then continue their research at graduate schools of the University and the Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. Throughout the history of the department, over 20 graduates specialized in Tuvan language. N.N. Shirobokova supervised 8 theses for the Candidate degree, some of them in Tuvan linguistics: B. Ch. Oorzhak “The system of tenses in Tuvan as compared to Old Uigur and South Siberian Turkic languages” (2002); A.Ya. Salchak “The lexico-semantic group of verbs of behavior in Tuvan language: A comparative study” (2005); V. S. Barys-Khoo (Ondar) “The lexico-semantic group of verbs of motion in Tuvan language: A comparative study” (2006); A. V. Baiyr-ool “Tuvan particles derived from verbs of being as compared to those in Yakut and Khakas languages” (2009). Among the current faculty of Tuva State University are numerous former students of Professor Shirobokova. They do fundamental research in lexicology and grammar of Tuvan language, develop the methodology of building corpora of Tuvan texts and teach ...