Department Head, Department of Ural-Altaic Languages
Employed at the Institute of Linguistics since 1981.
Born in 1959.
Graduated from the Division of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Lomonosov State University of Moscow in 1981. Completed her graduate studies in the Institute of Linguistics (in absentia). Earned her PhD, Dr.habil. degree in 1992. Elected as the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2008.
Currently serves as the Department Head for the Department of Ural-Altaic Languages at the Institute of Linguistics RAS and as the Prof. for the Centre of Comparative Linguistics, Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies, RSUH.
Participated in various fieldwork enterprises, led by Alexander Kibrik, while studying at the Division of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Among them are studies of the Bezhta language (1976 and 1980), the Budukh language (1977), the phonation systems of the Lak dialects (Illich-Svitych Nostratic seminar of 1978). Actively engaged in field studies of the Turkic languages and their dialects (Chuvash, Khakass, Tuvinian, Altaic), and dialects of the Russian languages, continuing her studies from 1980s onward.
Theses
Diploma thesis
Deklinacionnye različija novgorodskix dialektov XIII-XIV vv. i ix lokalizacija [Differences in declension of the Novgorod dialects in XIII-XIV centuries and their localization]. Lomonosov State University of Moscow, Division of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 1981. Research Advisor — Andrey Zaliznyak.
Dr.habil. thesis
Semantičeskaja rekonstrukcija v altajskoj ètimologii [Semantic reconstruction in the Altaic etymology]. Institute of Linguistics RAS, 1992.
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Teaching career
Anna Dybo conducts classes at the Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Institute of Linguistics RSUH. Her primary theoretical class is Comparative Historical Linguistics.
During her work in RSUH delivered a number of lectures on various courses. Among them: "Comparative historical grammar of Indo-European languages", "Methodology of etymology", "Introduction to the Altaic studies - Turkic studies", "Introduction to the Altaic studies - Mongolian studies", "Introduction to the Altaic studies - Tungusic studies", "Introduction to the Altaic studies - history of the Korean language", "Introduction to the comparative historical grammar of the Romance languages", "Theoretical grammar of the Korean language", "Theoretical grammar of the Turkish language", "Introduction to the Nostratic linguistics", "Methodology of historical semantic research", "Dialectology of the Korean language", "Dialectology of the Turkic languages", "Introduction to the comparative historical studies of the Slavic languages". Anna Dybo has published original courses on the aforementioned subjects. She is the program organizer and manager for such undergraduate courses as "Comparative linguistics", "Turkic philology" (approved by RSUH in 2002), graduate course "Comparative historical linguistics - Indo-European studies).
Delivered lectures in various universities of Novosibirsk, Baku, Washington, and other cities as a visiting professor.
Academic career
Primary research interests - comparative historical linguistics, specifically etymology, comparative diachronic phonetics, semantic typology, ethnolinguistics, Altaic studies, Uralic studies, Slavic studies, Indo-European studies, and Nostratic studies.
Discovered several hundreds of new language convergence cases in the Altaic languages. Thoroughly justified their phonetic and semantic patterns, thus significantly advancing the solution of the Altaic languages proximity. Studies the intact lexical layers which allow for a more detailed reconstruction of particular culture features and the worldview of the Proto-Altaic people. Anna Dybo has proposed new ideas and solutions for comparative historical phonetics of the Altaic, Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic languages, as well as for the historical morphology of the Turkic languages. A number of her works is dedicated to historical linguistic geography, loan-words from the Altaic languages into Slavic languages, Turkic-Iranian and Ural-Altaic language contacts, ethnicity and culture isoglosses in metrology. Conducts research to determine examples of the disappearing phonological opposition in prosody of the Turkic languages.
In Anna Dybo's works on the semantic reconstruction, the comparative method of research is expanded upon in three directions. 1) The typological component is strengthened and verified by applying the comparative method to the nominal grids of the Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, Paleo-Asiatic, and Dravidian languages. The typology of changes in the semantic structures is considered, allowing to showcase the general and particular in the historical processes of the semantics on a large spatial and temporal scale. 2) Areal methodology was systematically justified. This included purely areal developments (diachronically verified), which proved especially useful in the case of lacking historical linguistic data (e.g. Tungusic languages), as well as using linguistic geography to study the linguistic stratification on the borders of linguistic groups (e.g. Turkic-Iranic interactions). 3) Semantic reconstruction of a specific vocabulary is done by differentiating functional and topographic components of meaning, which form separate characteristic subsystems. This approach allows for a more exact reconstruction of proto-lexicon areas, especially those concerned with the natural environment and the material culture of the assumed native speakers of the proto-language.
Anna Dybo is an active member of the Illich-Svitych Nostratic seminar. She is one of the authors of the 3rd issue of "Comparing the Nostratic languages and the etymological database Nostret". Proposed several innovations for the Proto-Nostratic consonantism reconstruction.
In the Into-European studies she is primarily concerned with Iranian and Slavic studies. Proposed several etymological developments in the Iranian studies, specifically for the linguistic contacts vocabulary. Worked with the historical dialectology of the Eastern Slavic languages in the Slavic studies with the aim of localizing the literary texts of the Middle Ages. She has recently published a proposal for applying her methodology to "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" (thus continuing on Andrey Zaliznyak's research). Moreover, she conducts profound research into Turkic-Slavic and Iranian-Slavic language contacts. She has suggested new possible etymological origins for a number of Russian words.
She is primarily concerned with etymology in the Uralic studies, especially with Ural-Altaic and Ural-Indo-European language contacts. Presently, Anna Dybo is working on a full analysis of Turkic loanwords in the Hungarian languages, which would allow to clarify the compound and the order of the historical phonetic processes in the Hungarian languages; moreover, it could grant insight into the Danubian Bulgar language, currently extinct and largely unknown.
Oversees a number of projects concerned with fundamental studies of the Presidium and the Department of Historical and Philological Studies. She partakes in interdisciplinary Ural-Altaic studies and international projects mainly concerned of linguistic proximity.
Vice-chairperson of the Russian Turkology committee, editor-in-chief for the "Ural-Altaic Studies" journal, member of the editorial board for the "Inquiries into the Linguistic Proximity" (Moscow), "RSUH Herald - linguistics" (Moscow), "Russian Turkology" (Moscow - Kazan) journals, and others.
Science Index
Selected publications
Has published more than 300 works (in Russian, English, French, German, Tatar, Turkish), including 11 monographs and dictionaries.
- Dybo, A. Ètimologičeskij slovar’ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkic languages]. Vol. 9 (additional): Ètimologičeskij slovar’ bazisnoj leksiki tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of the basic vocabulary of the Turkic languages]. Astana, 2013, 620 P.
- Dybo, A. Lingvističeskie kontakty rannix tjurkov. Leksičeskij fond. Pratjurkskij period [Language contacts of the early Turkic people. Vocabulary. The Proto-Turkic period.]. M., Vostočnaja literatura, 2007.
- Sravnitel’no-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov. Pratjurkskij jazyk-osnova. Kartina mira pratjurka [Comparative historical grammar of the Turkic languages. The Proto-Turkic language - a foundation. The worldview of a Proto-Turk.]. Tenišev, È., Dybo, A., Blagova, G., Kormušin, I., Mudrak, O., Musaev, K., Nasilov, D., Normanskaja, Ju., Tadinova, R., Tenišev, È. & Èkba, Z. (Eds.). M., Nauka. 2006.
- Dybo, A., Blagova, G., Levitskaja, L. & Rassadin, V. Ètimologičeskij slovar’ tjurkskix jazykov. Občšetjurkskie i mežtjurkskie osnovy na L, M, N, P, S [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkic languages. Common Turkic and Inter-Turkic word stems starting with L, M, N, P, S]. M., Vostočnaja literatura, 2003. (http://www.altaica.ru).
- Dybo, A., Starostin, S. & Mudrak, O. Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages. Leiden, Brill, 2003 (Vol. 1-3). (http://starling.rinet.ru).
- Dybo, A., Anikin, A., Pičxadze, A. & Sabenina, A., et al. Novoe v russkoj ètimologii. I [New discoveries in the Russian etymology. Vol. I]. M., Institut russkogo jazyka im. Vinogradova, 2003.
- Dybo, A., Blagova, G., Grunina, È., Kormušin, I., Mudrak, O., Musaev, K., Nasilov, D., Tenišev, È. & Čečenov, A. Sravnitel’no-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov. Regional’nye rekonstrukcii [Comparative historical grammar of the Turkic languages. Regional reconstructions]. Tenišev, È. (Ed.). M., Nauka, 2002.
- Dybo, A., Levitskaja, L. & Rassadin, V. Ètimologičeskij slovar’ tjurkskix jazykov. Občšetjurkskie i mežtjurkskie osnovy na K [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkic languages. Common Turkic and Inter-Turkic word stems starting with K]. M., Indrik, 2000. (http://www.altaica.ru)
- Dybo, A., Blagova, G., Dobrodomov, I., Kormušin, I., Levitskaja, L., Mudrak, O., Musaev, K. & Tenišev, È. Sravnitel’no-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov. Leksika [Comparative historical grammar of the Turkic languages. Lexicon]. M., Nauka, 1997. Reissue: M., Nauka, 2001.
- Dybo, A., Levitskaja, L., Rassadinym, V. Ètimologičeskij slovar’ tjurkskix jazykov. Občšetjurkskie i mežtjurkskie osnovy na K - Ka [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkic languages. Common Turkic and Inter-Turkic word stems starting with K-Ka]. M., Jazyki russkoj kul’tury, 1997. (http://www.altaica.ru)
- Dybo, A. Semantičeskaja rekonstrukcija v altajskoj ètimologii. Somatičeskie terminy [Semantic reconstruction of the Altaic etymology. Somatic terminology]. M., Gnozis. Jazyki russkoj kul’tury. 1996. (http://www.altaica.ru)
- Illič-Svityč, V., Dybo, A., Dolgopol’skij, A. Opyt sravnenija nostratičeskix jazykov (semitoxamitskij, kartvel’skij, indoevropej-skij, ural’skij, dravidijskij, altajskij). Sravnitel’nyj slovar’ (p – q). (Po kartotekam avtora) [Comparing the Nostratic languages (Semito-Hamitic, Kartvelian, Indo-European, Uralic, Dravidic, Altaic). Comparative Dictionary (p - q). (As per the author's indices)]. M., "Nauka", 1984. (Digital edition)
- Turkic Languages and Slavic // Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief Greenberg, M. L. Consulted online on 13 January 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032504 First published online: 2020
- Dybo, A., Maltseva, V., Sheymovitch, A., Sultrekova, E. The use of personal markers in the Beltyr dialect of the Khakas language from a comparative perspective. // Turkic Languages 23(1), 2019. P. 31-48.
- Dybo, A., Mallory, J., Balanovsky, O. The Impact of Genetics Research on Archaeology and Linguistics in Eurasia // Russian Journal of Genetics, 2019, Vol. 55, No. 12, pp. 1472–1487. (соавт.: J. Mallory, O. Balanovsky)
- Dybo, A., Rezanova, Z., Temnikova, I., Nekrasova, E., Stepanenko, A., Datsyuk, V. The Bimodal Corpus of Russian-Turkic Bilinguals’ Speech (RuTuBiC) // Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Annual International Conference "Dialogue" materials (Moscow, May 29th — June 1st 2019). М., 2019. P. 200-210
- Dybo, A., Maltseva, V. Representation of dialect texts in the Oral corpus of the Khakas dialects // VII International Conference on the computer processing of the Turkic languages "TurkLang 2019". Simferopol, 2019, P. 20-29.
- Dybo, A. Төрки Һәм Славян Телләре: Контакт Күренешләр // Фәнни Татарстан, 2019, № 4, 5-21
- Dybo, A. Proto-Turkic Mythologie Terms: Some Etymological Observations // Shaman. 2018. Т. 26. № 1-2. P. 21-40.
- Dybo, A. New trends in European studies on the Altaic problem // Вопросы языкового родства, № 14/1-2, 2016 - P. 71-106
- Dybo, A. Bulgarian borrowings in Hungarian: the problem of reflecting *q- //Words and Dictionaries. A Festschrift for Professor Stanisław Stachowski on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday, Krakow 2016 Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press, P. 113-126
- Dybo, A. On the reflexes of Proto-Turkic vowel length in the Turkic languages // Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2015, Volume 132, Issue 3, Eurolinguistics, P. 121–134
- Balanovsky, O., Zhabagin, M., Agdzhoyan, A., Dybo, A., (...), Tyler-Smith, C., Balanovska, E. Chukhryaeva, M., Zaporozhchenko, V., Utevska, O., Highnam, G., Sabitov, Z., Greenspan, E., Dibirova, K., Skhalyakho, R., Kuznetsova, M., Koshel, S., Yusupov, Y., Nymadawa, P., Zhumadilov, Z., Pocheshkhova, E., Haber, M., Zalloua, P. A., Yepiskoposyan, L. Deep phylogenetic analysis of haplogroup G1 provides estimates of SNP and STR mutation rates on the human Y-chromosome and reveals migrations of Iranic speakers // PLoS ONE Open Access 2015 Volume: 10 Issue: 4 Pages: e0122968 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122968.
- Dybo, A., Kushniarevich, A., Utevska, O., Chuhryaeva, M., Owings, A. C., Schurr, T. G., Agdzhoyan, A., Dibirova, K., Uktveryte, I., Möls, M., Mulahasanovic, L., Pshenichnov, A., Frolova, S., Shanko, A., Metspalu, E., Reidla, M., Tambets, K., Tamm, E., Koshel, S., Zaporozhchenko, V., Atramentova, L., Kučinskas, V., Davydenko, O., Goncharova, O., Evseeva, I., Churnosov, M., Pocheshchova, E., Yunusbayev, B., Khusnutdinova, E., Marjanović, D., Rudan, P., Rootsi, S., Yankovsky, N., Endicott, P., Kassian, A., Tyler-Smith, C., Balanovska, E., Metspalu, M., Kivisild, T., Villems, R., Balanovsky, O. Genetic heritage of the Balto-Slavic speaking populations: A synthesis of autosomal, mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal data // PLoS ONE Open Access 2015 (5) Volume: 10 Issue: 9
- Dybo, A. Early contacts of Turks and Proto-Turkic reconstruction // Tatarica 2014, № 2, Kazan, Kazan Federal University. P. 7-17
- Alpatov, V., Dybo, A., et al. Les recherches turcologiques de Polivanov 218-233, Les travaux turcologiques et altaïstiques de E. D Polivanov 274-289 // Archaimbault, Sylvie & Sergueï Tchougounnikov, eds., Evgenij Polivanov : penser le langage au temps de Staline, Paris, Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 2013, ISBN 978-2-7204-0498-6.
- Dybo, A. Language and Archeology: some methodological problems // Voprosy jazykovogo rodstva, №9, 2013. P. 69-92.
- Dybo, A. Eski Türkçede Patlamalı Diş Ünsüzler // Türk Dili Araştırmaları Belleten, Ankara 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. P. 2905-2920 (Summary)
- Dybo, A. Bulgars and Slavs: phonetic features in early loanwords // Studies on the Turkic World. Festschrift in honour of Stanisław Stachowski. E. Mańczak-Wohlfeld, E. & Podolak, B. (Eds.). Kraków 2010: P. 21–40.
- Dybo, A., Starostin, G. In Defense of the Comparative Method, or The End of the Vovin Controversy (In memory of Sergei Starostin) // Aspekty komparativistiki-III [Aspects of comparativistics-III]. М., 2008. P. 119-258. (Digital edition)
- Dybo, A. Mahmud Kaşgari’nin Sözlüğü’ndeki Eski Sinciang dilleri’nden alıntı sözcükler üzerine I. Uluslararasi Kasgarli Mahmut Dil ve Edebiyat Sempozyumu. Lefkosa, 2008. 73-83.
- Dybo, A. Indoeuropeans and Altaians through the linguistic reconstruction // Kinship in the Altac World. Proceedings of the 48th PIAC. Wiesbaden, 2006. P. 88-102.
- Dybo, A. Some pecularities of Altaic reflexes of Nostratic sibilants // Nostratic Centennial Conference, The Pecz Papers. Pecz, Lingua franca Group, 2005. P. 85-114. (Digital edition)
- Dybo, A. Names of gift in Turkic languages // Altajskie jazyki i vostočnaja filologija [Altaic languages and the Eastern philology]. M., "Vostočnaja literatura", 2005. P. 478-498.
- Dybo, A. On the problems of Oghuz morphophonology. 2 // Turkic languages. 9 (2005). Wiesbaden, P. 199-204
- Dybo, A. Towards the Typology of Anthropometric Systems: Qary in Central Asia // Oriental Studies in Russia. Leiden, Brill, 2004. P. 204-214.
- Dybo, A. Turco-Tocharica and Turco-Sakica renewed // Altaica Budapestinensia MMII. Proceedings of the 45th Permanent International Altaistic Conference (Budapest 2002). Budapest, 2003. P. 87-97.
- Dybo, A. Die Namen des Zeigefingers in den tūrkischen und altaischen Sprachen // Türkische Laut- und Wortgeschichte, Berlin, 1995. 45-57
- Dybo, A. Methods in systemic reconstruction of Altaic and Nostratic lexics // Lingvističeskaja rekonstrukcija i drevnejšaja istorija Vostoka [Linguistic reconstruction and the Ancient history of the East]. М., 1989.