%0 Journal Article
%T V. M. ZHIRMUNSKY'S HERITAGE IN THE FIELD OF TURKOLOGY
%A Puzejkina Larisa Nikolaevna
%J Magister Dixit
%D 2012
%I Irkutsk State Linguistic University
%X This article is dedicated to the well-known literary critic and linguist, academician V.M. Zhirmunsky¡¯s (evacuated to Tashkent during the Great Patriotic War) studies of Turkic languages. These scientific works resulted in a number of fundamental publications that opened a new stage in Turkic studies in general. This article highlights V.M. Zhirmunsky¡¯s life in Tashkent and provides a detailed overview and a partial analysis of his researches, dedicated to the study of peoples¡¯ of Central Asia living epic traditions, as well as the research of linguistics and stylistics of Turkic languages. The review includes published scholarly work and materials from a personal Zhirmunsky¡¯s archive, located in the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
%K Zhirmunskii
%K turkology
%K the epic
%K Alpamysh
%K Manas
%K Idige
%K Korkut
%K Salor-Kasan
%K M¨©r Al¨© Sh¨©r
%K Orkhon inscriptions
%K Turkic dialects
%K archive of the Academy of Sciences.
%U http://md.islu.ru/sites/md.islu.ru/files/rar/statya_puzeykinoy.pdf