Elena Skribnik

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Elena Skribnik ( Russian Елена Константиновна Скрибник , born 1953 in Novosibirsk ) is a Russian Finnougrist .

Life

She studied general linguistics , Sinology , Japanese Studies and Russian Studies ( Magister 1975) at the University of Novosibirsk , PhD in Turkish Studies , Mongolian Studies and Finno-Ugric Studies (Doctorate in General Linguistics 1979, Lomonossow University Moscow ; Habilitation in Mongolian Studies 1989, Institute for Mongolian and Tibetan Studies, Ulan -Ude ). From 1980 to 2001 she worked in the Siberian Languages Department at the Philology Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Department, Novosibirsk), of which she was Vice-Director since 1997.

1993–1994 and 1997 she worked as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the Institute for Finno-Ugric / Ural Studies at the University of Hamburg ; as DAAD - visiting professor she taught in Munich (1999) and Hamburg (2000). In April 2001 she succeeded Ingrid Schellbach-Kopra at the Institute for Finno-Ugric / Ural Studies at the LMU .

Her main research interests are syntactic typology, morphosyntax, documentation and description of the threatened Siberian languages, sociolinguistics and ethnology of the Ural peoples of Siberia.

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