BOGORODICKIJ, Vasilij Alekseevič. Carevokokšajsk (now Joškar-Ola) 7(19).4.1857 — Kazan 23.12.1941. Russian IE and Slavic Linguist. Professor in Kazan. School at Carevokokšajsk and Kazan. Studies at Kazan under Baudouin de Courtenay et al. Kand. 1880. PD 1881 Kazan, for comparative linguistics. Mag. 1884, now Docent of Comparative Grammar of IE Languages at Kazan. Doctor 1888, now eo. Professor of Sanskrit and Comp. Grammar (in charge of chair from 1886, succeeding Kruševskij). From 1893 ord. Professor of the same at Kazan. He retired early, in 190?. He is known as a pioneer of experimental phonetics in Russia. Also a Turcologist.
Publications: Mag.diss. Glasnye bez udarenija v obščerusskom jazyke. 1884; dr. diss. Kurs grammatiki russkogo jazyka. 1. Fonetika. 1887.
– Einige Reformvorschläge auf dem Gebiete der vergleichenden Grammatik der indoeuropäischen Sprachen. Kazan 1890; Iz čtenija po sravnitel’noj grammatike indoevropejskih jazykov. 1-4. 1895-1902; Kurs sravnitel’noj grammatiki indoevropejskih jazykov. 1. 80 p. Kazan 1899; articles.
– Zametki po èksperimental’noj fonetike. 1. 1896.
– Much on Russian and on Turco-Tatar languages, occasionally also on Finno-Ugrian.
Sources: His own account with bibliography in Biobibl. slovar’ Kazan 1, 1904, 36-38; A.N. Kononov, Biobibl. slovar’ oteč. tjurkologov. Moskva 1974, 128f. (with further reff.); R. Lewicki, Lex. gramm. 1996, 116f.
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