Tatiana Toporova

Leading Researcher, Section of Germanic Languages

PhD

Works at the Institute of Linguistics since 1986.

Tatiana Toporova was born in 1960. In 1982, she graduated from the Division of Romance and Germanic Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1986, she completed her postgraduate studies at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences where she then started working at the Section of Germanic Languages. Tatiana Toporova specializes in Proto-Germanic languages. She defended her PhD thesis "Problemy lingvističeskoj rekonstrukcii germanskoj kosmogonii" [Problems of linguistic reconstruction of German cosmogony] in 2000. 

Currently, Tatiana Toporova is developing a framework for describing epic vocabulary on the materials of Proto-Germanic mythopoetic sources. See the example (in Russian) here.

For more information on Tatiana Toporova's publications, grants, and teaching experience, see this source (in Russian). 

Science Index

Selected publications

  • "Semantičeskaja struktura drevnegermanskoj modeli mira" [Semantic Structure of Proto-Germanic model of the world], Moscow, Radiks, 1994, 12 a.l.;
  • "Kul’tura v zerkale jazyka: drevnegermanskie dvučlennye imena sobstvennye" [Culture as the reflection of language: Proto-Germanic binominal proper names], Moscow, Škola "Jazyki russkoj kul’tury", 1996, 16 a.l.;
  • "Jazyk i stil’ drevnegermanskix zagovorov" [Language and style of Proto-Germanic curses], Moscow, Èditorial URSS, 1996, 13,5 a.l.;
  • "Drevnegermanskaja kosmogonija: jazyk i mif" [Proto-Germanic cosmogony: language and myth] // Rossijskie issledovanija po mirovoj istorii i kul’ture. T. 1. The Edwin Mellen Press. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter, 1999, 11,5 a.l.;
  • "O drevneislandskix kosmologičeskix zagadkax kak fenomene jazyka i kul’tury" [On Proto-Germanic cosmological riddles as linguistic and cultural phenomenons], Moscow, IMLI RAN, 2002, 15 a.l.;
  • "Principy opisanija èpičeskogo slova: koncept gory v "Staršej Èdde" [Principles of poetic vocabulary description: the concept of a mountain in Poetic Edda]. Moscow, Akademija gumanitarnyx issledovanij, 2006;
  • "Èpičeskoe slovo: oboznačenija flory v "Staršej Èdde" [Poetic vocabulary: description of flora in Poetic Edda], Moscow, Tezaurus, 2009, 437 p.;
  • "Èpičeskoe slovo: oboznačenija zemli i neba v "Staršej Èdde" [Poetic vocabulary: description of earth and sky in Poetic Edda]. Moscow: Tezaurus, 2011. - 315 p. ISBN 978-5-98421-118-5
  • "Èpičeskoe slovo: oboznačenija vody v "Staršej Èdde" [Poetic vocabulary: description of water in Poetic Edda], Moscow, Tezaurus, 2017, 19,5 p.l.; 
  • "Èpičeskoe slovo: oboznačenija dorogi, puti v "Staršej Èdde" [Poetic vocabulary: description of roads in Poetic Edda]. Moscow: Tezaurus, 2018, 364 p.;
  • Toporova T.V. Istoki bytija. Ot drevnegermanskogo kosmogoničeskogo mifa k istorii [The origins of being. From Proto-Germanic cosmogenic mythology to history]. Moscow: Jazyki Narodov Mira. 2020, 106 p. ISBN 978-5-89191-093-5

See the complete list of publications here.

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