Vladimir Antonovich Dybo (1931–2023) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, Doctor of Philology, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and chief research fellow in the Department of Slavic Linguistics at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was a specialist in comparative historical accentology of the Slavic and Balto-Slavic languages. The scholar's Nizhny Novgorod connection stems from his education: in 1954 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Gorky State University.[1]

Scholarly work

Dybo worked at the Institute of Slavic Studies from 1958, successively holding the positions of senior scientific and technical staff member, junior research fellow, senior research fellow, leading research fellow, and chief research fellow.[1] In 1962 he defended his candidate's dissertation, "The Problem of the Correlation of Two Balto-Slavic Series of Accentual Correspondences in the Verb…", and in 1979 his doctoral dissertation, "An Attempt at Reconstructing the System of Proto-Slavic Accentual Paradigms."[1]

The main focus of his work was the reconstruction of Proto-Slavic and Balto-Slavic prosodic systems and the identification of their connections with the accentual systems of other Indo-European languages, as well as the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European prosody. Dybo put forward the hypothesis of a tonal origin for the Indo-European accentual system and established a number of diachronic accentological laws, some of which bear his name. In parallel, he developed a typology of accentual systems and studied the problems of distant language relationships and of the correlation of proto-languages with archaeological cultures.[1] He took part in preparing for publication the works of V. M. Illich-Svitych on Nostratic linguistics.[1]

His published monographs include "Slavic Accentology: An Attempt at Reconstructing the System of Accentual Paradigms in Proto-Slavic" (Moscow: Nauka, 1981), "Foundations of Slavic Accentology" (Moscow: Nauka, 1990; co-authored with G. I. Zamyatina and S. L. Nikolaev), a dictionary of the same name (1993), and "Morphonologized Paradigmatic Accentual Systems: Typology and Genesis" (Moscow: Languages of Russian Culture, 2000).[1]

Nizhny Novgorod years

Vladimir Dybo was born on April 30, 1931, in the village of Pirogovka in Shostka District, Sumy Region (Ukraine). In 1954 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Gorky State University, after which he entered the graduate program of the Faculty of Philology at Moscow State University, completing it in 1958.[1] Thus, the scholar's student years were spent in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod).

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Sources

  1. inslav.ru — Dybo Vladimir Antonovich (1931–2023) — Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISl RAS)