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The Department (formerly
the Laboratory) of Siberian Indigenous Languages was founded by Prof. A.P
Dulson over 50 years ago, and currently boasts extended language archives, and
exciting local and cooperative projects sponsored by domestic and international
foundations, such as: Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Ministry
of Science, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Humanitarian
Scientific Fund, Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation Network, Fulbright
Foundation, Humboldt Foundation and others.
The Department makes a strong emphasis on the study of languages and cultures of
indigenous peoples of Siberia.
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The Department first received official
organizational status of The Laboratory within
Tomsk State Pedagogical University
in 1991 on the basis of professor
A.Dulson`s project at Tomsk State Pedagogical Institute. In 1947 A. Dulson
worked out a special program for investigating languages of indigenous peoples.
The collection of such materials was aimed at compiling dictionaries of these
languages and further comparison of the Siberian languages, their history,
culture, ethnography and archeology. A.P.Dulson and the research staff of Tomsk
State University and Tomsk State Pedagogical Institute collected historical,
ethnographic, archeological and linguistic data in course of multiple field
projects on the territory of Tomsk region. A.P. Dulson and his successors have
undertaken more 35 interdisciplinary expeditions to the North of the Tomsk and
Krasnojarsk regions to gather linguistic and ethnographic data on Khanty,
Chulym-Turkic, Nganasan, Enets, Dolgan, Selkup, Ket and Yugh.
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Research and Education Department –
A.P.Dulson’s ethnolinguistics school documenting, studying and promoting the
moribund languages and cultures of minority ethnic groups of western Siberia.
The Department's research profile is
centered around descriptive and theoretical ethnolinguistic and ethnographic
research of endangered languages of aboriginal peoples of Siberia (Selkup, Ket,
Khanty, Chulym (Turkic), Nganasan, Dolgan) and of Germanic languages (English,
German): historical, typological, anthropological, areal and sociolinguistic
perspectives.
Head of the
Department of Indigenous Languages of Siberia:
Andrey Yu. Filchenko, PhD Linguistics, Kandidat Nauk, Associate
Professor.
Department's Staff:
Aleksandra
A. Kim,
Doctor of Philology, Professor.
Julia Kurganskaya,
Department's Library Consultant.
Department's Collaborators, research advisors:
Elena A. Krjukova,
Kandidat Nauk, Associate Professor.
Olga S. Potanina,
Kandidat Nauk, Associate Professor.
Valeria
M.
Lemskaya, Kandidat Nauk, Associate
Professor.
Valentina V.
Bykonja,
Doctor of Philology, Professor.
Aleksandra
A. Kim,
Doctor of Philology, Professor.
Elizaveta G.Kotorova,
Doctor of Philology, Professor.
Vladimir A. Plungian,
Doctor of Philology, Professor.
12 Post-graduate students
(people)
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The
archival funds of endangered languages of aboriginal Siberia is regularly
updated with the results of expeditionary ethnolinguistic projects. At least 4
field expeditions sponsored by TGPU, national and international agencies are
administered annually. At present linguistic and ethnocultural documentation is
performed using the modern methodological and technological facilities and
in accordance with the international methodological and technological
conventions. The aim is to design and implement
an infrastructure for effective storage and access to the ethnographical and
linguistic data; generate, test and apply high-efficiency methods of linguistic
data archival to ensure the productive environment for the research and
effective training/education. The collection, processing and archiving of the
new data is currently performed with the use of international best practices,
such as those recommended by DoBeS, ELAR, SIL. This allows integrate the data on
endangered languages of Siberia into the unified global academic discourse
applying the computer technology in linguistics.
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The
activities also include design and publication of academic and methodical
materials for ethnic educational institutions and projects to maintain and
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Annual selected papers in linguistics |
Abstracts of the conferences |
Publications in ethnology of Siberian people |
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Dictionaries and methodological aids for the schools |
Collections of texts for reading in Siberian indigenous languages |
Monographs in theoretical linguistics |
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The Department plays an active
role in the organization of the academic exchange programs for
students, post-graduates and young faculty, both as a host and donor side.
For the last 5 years more than 10 members of the center and 3 foreign
citizens participated in various exchange programs.
The center is an access
point to the unique library collections with more than 8,500 titles,
which are used by students, aspirants and scientists as well as by anyone
affiliated with TSPU, Tomsk universities and guests from other regions of
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The Department has the
officially certified graduate degree programs 10.02.02 “The Languages
of the Peoples of Russian Federation: Nganasan, Selkup, Tatar, Ket, Khanty”,
and 10.02.20 “Comparative-historical, typological and contrastive
linguistics”. There are at least 10 graduate students pursuing their degree
projects at the Department annually.
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The Department is welcoming
anyone interested in the languages and cultures of the aboriginal
population of Siberia. In March 2006 the staff of the center and the faculty
of the Department of Siberian Indigenous Languages designed and administered
presentations on the language and culture of indigenous nations of Tomsk
region (Khanty, Ket, Selkup) for the students of Tomsk Academic lyceum.
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The Department holds
regular monthly graduate colloquiums and seminars, aimed at reporting on the
progress of on-going projects and dissertation research. The Department's
open seminars provide the floor for the guest speakers
covering a wide range of issues in theoretical and applied linguistics,
inviting the leading Russian and world experts, professor V.А.Plungjan
(Moscow), professor А.P.Volodin (St. Petersburg), professor T.Payne (USA),
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To extend the contact
network and to intensify the academic and information exchange the Department
established in the early 1960’s the bi-annual international academic conference
“Dulson Readings”. The summer of 2008 will see the 25th congress.
Scientific and research center
is the partner in research, scientific and educational projects with a
number of national and foreign organizations: Regional and All-Russian
associations of native minorities of the North, Siberia and the Far East;
Rice University (Houston, USA), Sheffield University (Great Britain),
Edinburgh University (Great Britain), London University-college (Great
Britain), Yale University (USA), Swarthmore College
(USA), West-Washington University (USA), Max Planck Institute in Leipzig
(Germany), Helsinki University (Finland), University of Zurich (Switzerland), University of Hamburg (Germany) etc.
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At present the Department
holds a unique archive of ethnolinguistic expedition materials – more than 200
volumes of field notes on various languages of Siberian, including: Ket (82),
Selkup (76), Nganasan (11), Dolgan (8), Enets (6), Khanty (6), Chulym-Turkic
(4); each volume representing a bound 500-800 page manuscript. A part of the
field notes has an audio-analogue.
This material represents the legacy of
several generations of dedicated scholars.
The archive materials also include a card
index of Western Siberia toponyms having 342 000 cards, more than 20 toponymic
cards of Western Siberia, Selkup and Ket lexical index (more than 330 000
cards).
The
archive also holds over 20 CD-ROMs containing audio recordings of the texts in
Ket and Yugh languages (made in 1950-60’s) and digitized from the analogue
tapes, as well as some video data of Ket, Yugh, Khanty, Chulym-Turkic speakers
on digital media that has been recorded over the last 5 years.
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Please, contact the department at:
- Telephone
- +7 (3822) 522889
- FAX
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+7 (3822) 446826
- Postal address
- Department of Siberian Indigenous
Languages, pr.Komsomolsky 75, k.246, Tomsk 634041 Russia
- E-mail
- General Information:
siblang[at]tspu.edu.ru
Webmaster:
filtchenko[at]policy.hu
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