Yuri Konstantinowitsch Kuzmenko

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Jurij Konstantinowitsch Kusmenko ( Russian Юрий Константинович Кузьменко ; born October 27, 1941 in Lipowka , USSR ) is a Russian linguist and Scandinavian . He was professor for Scandinavian linguistics at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Life

Kusmenko studied Germanic Philology at the University of Leningrad between 1960 and 1965 . Michail Iwanowitsch Steblin-Kamenski, a German scholar, was among his teachers . After his state exam Kusmenko was a graduate student at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad , where he in 1970 with a thesis on the history of affricates in Swedish doctorate . At the Academy of Sciences in 1984 he also wrote his habilitation thesis on the phonological evolution of the North Germanic languages .

From 1975 until his appointment to the Northern Europe Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin , Kusmenko was head of the seminar for diachronic phonology of the Germanic languages ​​and, from 1988, director of the department for comparative studies of Indo-European languages ​​at the Institute for Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences. During this time he repeatedly received teaching assignments and substitute positions at the Universities of Leningrad / Saint Petersburg and Vilnius , where he mainly taught the history and runology of the Germanic languages .

Between 1994 and 2007 Kusmenko was professor for Scandinavian linguistics at the Northern Europe Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since his retirement at Humboldt University in 2007, he has been working again as a researcher in the department for comparative studies of Indo-European languages ​​at the Institute for Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Furthermore, he regularly receives teaching assignments at the universities in Berlin and Vilnius.

Research and Teaching

Jurij Kuzmenko and Nina Afanassjewa (Murmansk, 2006)

The focus of Kusmenko's research and teaching is on the North Germanic languages, especially on historical phonology, dialectology , language contact and runology. He has also researched and taught Sami , language typology and Old Norse literature .

Particularly noteworthy are his recent research on the influence of the Finno-Ugric contact languages ​​during the evolution of North Germanic. The two monographs from 2008 and 2011 deal with this question in detail. The hypothesis of a Sami substratum in North Germanic dialects was already expressed by Kusmenko in an article in 1983 and in his habilitation thesis in 1984.

Jurij Kuzmenko also contributed to the documentation and description of the threatened Kolasam languages ​​and was the first Russian linguist in this field after Georgi Martynowitsch Kert . In a language documentation project led by him and Michael Rießler at the Humboldt University, Kusmenko u. a. together with the Kildinsamischen language activists Nina Jelissejewna Afanassjewa and Alexandra Andrejewna Antonowa as mother tongue consultants.

Awards

Fonts

Monographs

  • 1991 Fonologitscheskaja Evoljutsija germanskich jasykow. Leningrad
  • 1991 Graffiti na vostotschnych monetach: Drevnjaja Rus i sopredelnyje strany. Leningrad (with IG Dobrowolskij, IV Dubow)
  • 2008 The Sami Influence on Scandinavian Languages: A Contribution to Scandinavian Language History. [= BBzS 10]. Berlin
  • 2011 Rannie germantsy i i sosedi. Lingvistika, archeologija, genetika. St. Petersburg

Editions (selection)

  • 1995 Etnolingwistitscheskie issledowanija: Etnitscheskie kontakty i jasykowie izmenenija. Saint Petersburg (with MA Borodina)
  • 1998 Etnolingwistitscheskie issledowanija: Vsaimodejstwie jasykow i dialektow. St. Petersburg
  • 2004 The Sámi and the Scandinavians [= writings on cultural studies 55]. Hamburg
  • 2007 Språk and Språkforhold i Sápmi [= BBzS 11]. Berlin (with T. Bull, M. Rießler)

Articles and book chapters (selection)

  • 1969 Diachronitscheskaja fonologija affrikat v germanskich jasykach. In: Woprosy jasykosnanija 1969 (4), 45-55
  • 1973 Diftongi skandinawskogo prelomlenija. In: Lingwistitscheskie issledovanija 1972. 185–198
  • 1983 Istoki skandinawskoi metafonii (o saamskom wlijanii na skandinawskie dialecty). In: Arealnye issledowanija v jasykoznanii i etnografii (jasyk i etnos), ed. by NI Tolstoy. Leningrad. 44-50
  • 1993 Some remarks on the Old Icelandic grammatical treatises. In: Scandinavian Studies 23 (2). 85-95
  • 1997 Further remarks on the Old Icelandic grammatical treatises. In: Scandinavian Studies 27 (2). 114-124
  • 1997 On the interpretation of the runic inscription on the pendant from Old Ladoga. In: NOWELE 31/32. 181-201
  • 2000 Traces of Sámi-Scandinavian Contact in Scandinavian Dialects. In: Languages ​​in Contact, ed. by D. Gilbert, J. Nerbonne, J. Schaeken. Amsterdam. 209-224. (with M. Rießler)
  • 2001 The causes of the suffixation of the definite article in the Scandinavian languages. In: Jasyk i reschewaja gejatelnost 4 (1). 184-206
  • 2003 The sources of article suffixation in the Balkan languages. In: Aktuellnye woprosy balkanskogo jasykosnanija, ed. by AN Sobolew, A. Ju. Rusakov. St. Petersburg. 133-157
  • 2003 The Supradental. A Scandinavian-Indo-Aryan-Dravidian parallel. In: Materialy meschdunarodoi konferentsii, poswjasennoi 100-letiju so dnja roschdenija professora MI Steblin-Kamenskogo, ed. by NN Kasanski, Ju. K. Kusmenko, SA Schubik. St. Petersburg. 185-194
  • 2005 The history of quantity in the Scandinavian languages. In: Tijdschrift voor Skandinavistiek 26 (2). 127-144
  • 2010 The development of compound prepositions in Norwegian, Swedish and Northern Russian - a case of a Finno-Ugric interference? In: Studies in Eurolinguistics 7, ed. by S. Ureland. Berlin. 515-530
  • 2012 K voprosu o twerdych, mjagkich i polumjagkich soglasnych v kolskom saamskom. In: Acta linguistica petropolitana 8 (1), ed. by NN Kasanski. St. Petersburg. 21–42 (with M. Rießler)
  • 2013 Sami as giants and dwarves in old Scandinavian literature. In: L'Image du Sápmi III, ed. by K. Andersson. Örebro. 168-201
  • 2016 Ash raz o vosmoschnosti saamskogo vlijanija na skandinavskie jazyki . In: Scandinavian Philology 14 (1). 43-58

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Summary of the habilitation thesis (in Russian)
  2. ↑ "Team" Kola Sámi Documentation Project (KSDP) (in English)
  3. ↑ The Sami influence on the Scandinavian languages. 2nd, revised edition, Berlin, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Kuzmenko, Yuri Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kusmenko, Jurij Konstantinowitsch (full name); Кузьменко, Юрий Константинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian linguist, Scandinavian
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Lipowka (Busulukskij rajon)