Larisa N. Tybykova

Candidate of Philology, Associate professor at the Department of Altaic Philology and Oriental Studies of the Faculty of Altaic Studies and Turkology of the Gorno-Altai State University (Gorno-Altaisk, Russian Federation)

Research Interests

Altai language, lexicology, lexical semantics, syntax, old Turkic language, runology, language policy, zoomorphisms

Scopus ID: 57205365589

Author ID RSCI: 599995

Brief scientific biography

Larisa Nikolaevna Tybykova graduated from Barnaul State Pedagogical Institute in 1982 with a degree in English and German language teacher. In 1985, she entered the graduate school of the Institute of Archaeology, Ethnography, Philology and Philosophy of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences with a degree in «Turkic languages». In 1989 she defended her candidate’s thesis «Comparative constructions of the Altai language», in 2011 she was awarded the academic title of associate professor.

Tybykova L.N. is a co-author and editor of significant works in Turkic linguistics such as «Thematic dictionary of the Northern dialects of the Altai language» (2004), «Morphemic dictionary of the Altai language» (2005), monographs «Complicated sentence in the Altai language» (2009), «Syntax of a complex sentence in the Altai language» (2013), «Altai Mythological Dictionary» (2017). Together with the Goethe University of Frankfurt, the Catalog of Ancient Turkic Runic Monuments of the Altai Mountains (2012) was released, which became a landmark event in Russian Turkology and in world runology. Tybykova L.N. directs course and diploma works of bachelors and masters, is the supervisor of graduate students, reviews and opposes candidate dissertations. Since 2009, member of the editorial board of the journal «Russian Turkology».

She was awarded an Honorary Diploma of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation, two Honorary diplomas of the State Assembly of El-Kurultai, an Honorary Diploma of the Government of the Republic of Altai, diplomas of the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth Policy of the Republic of Altai, Gorno-Altai State University. In 2017 she was granted the status of «Veteran of Labor of the Russian Federation».

Selected publications

Tybykova L.N., Erdal M., Nevskaya I.A. Catalog of ancient Turkic runic monuments of Gorny Altai. Gorno-Altaisk. 2012. 146 p.

Tybykova A.T., Cheremisina M.I., Tybykova L.N. Syntax of a Complicated Sentence in Altai language. 2 edition. Novosibirsk, 2013. 268 p.

Wood J.V., Wood G., Tybykova A.T. Morphemic dictionary of the Altai language (with translation into Russian and English). Gorno-Altaisk, 2005. 318 p.

Tybykova L.N. The symbols of beauty in Altay zoomorphisms. Turkic languages. Harrassowitz. Verlag. Wiesbaden. Vol. 11, no. 2. 2007. P. 211–225.

Tybykova L.N. History of documentation and research on Old Turkic runic inscriptions of the Altai Mountains. Interpreting the Turkic runiform sources and the position of the Altay corpus. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2015. P. 186–201. (co-authored)

Tybykova L.N. The teleuts and their language. Tehlideki Türk dilleri. Endangered Turkic languages. Son Sesler. Last Voices. Ankara-Astana, 2016 Volume II B. P.421—431.

Ozonova A., Tazranova A., Tybykova L., Sarbasheva S. The expression of prospective semantics in the Altay language and it’s dialects. Prospective and Proximative in Turkic, Iranian and beyond. Edited by Agnes Korn and Irina Nevskaya. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden. 2017 P. 309–316.

Tybykova L. Digital macro-photogrammetry in documentation of Old Turkic runiform inscriptions in the Altai Mountains. Mediterranean archaeology & archaeometry, 2019. Vol.19, no. 2. (co-authored)

Tybykova L. Kuttu-I, a recently discovered Old Turkic Altai runiform inscription and its reading and interpretation. Turkic Languages. 2019. Vol. 23, P. 163–177. (co-authored)