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263:; 22 March 1905 β 26 August 1996) was a Soviet Turkologist, linguist, and ethnologist. He created a systematization model of the Turkic language family (Baskakov's classification), and studied Turkic-Russian contacts in the 10-11th centuries CE. During 64 years of scientific work (1930-1994), Baskakov published almost 640 works including 32 books. The main area of Baskakov's scientific interests was linguistics, but he also studied folklore and ethnography of the Turkic peoples, and also was a musician and composer.
333:, he took part in a piano class at Gryazov's musical school. From that time music accompanied him throughout his life. Post-revolutionary shocks of 1920s immediately tested the vicissitudes of life, from 1919 to 1922. While studying in a unified labor school reorganized from his gymnasium, Baskakov worked as an ordinary clerk, and as a draftsman in the public health department. In 1922 Baskakov graduated from high school and went to Gryazov pedagogical school, but the aspirations to become an
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517:, later a Language and Literacy Institute of USSR peoples. In 1938, as a reward for his publications, Baskakov became a PhD in Philology without writing a thesis dissertation. In 1939-1940, Baskakov worked on country-wide transitioning of the Turkic peoples from the Arabic to a slew of quasi-Cyrillic alphabets, visiting Kazan, Ufa, Tashkent and Alma-Ata. During World War II, Baskakov was sent to
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From the end of the 1970s, Baskakov developed a typological model of the grammatical system of Turkic languages. Baskakov's concept on the most ancient typological structure of Turkic languages found "hypothetically initial pre-agglutinative form of Turkic, where abstract grammatical constructions
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Language and Thinking of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In that institution, under its many different names, Baskakov worked for almost 50 years. He visited Lithuania, Northern Caucasus, Turkmenia and Khakassia helping to establish new scientific institutions. In 1950, Baskakov wrote a
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Baskakov developed a typological model of the grammatical system of the Turkic languages. Baskakov developed a complete concept of Turkic language type, described in three monographs, "Historical structural typology of Turkic languages" (1975), "Historical typological
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Studying a number of Turkic languages simultaneously, Baskakov evaluated the degree of their genetic affinity, and learned the principles of Turkic typology, which eventually resulted in creation of a synthesizing concept, a new classification of Turkic languages. First published in 1952, the
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dissertation themed "Karakalpak language. Parts of speech and word-formation" for the Doctor of
Philology degree. In 1989, Baskakov retired from active work, but continued voluntary work, and remained a chief scientist in the Karakalpak branch of the Uzbek SSR Academy of Sciences.
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620:. Baskakov published dialectal material, a series "Northern dialects of the Altai (Oirot) language" in three parts, "Dialect of taiga Tatars (Tuba-Kiji)" (1966), "Dialect of Kumandy-kiji" (1972), "Dialect of Kuu Tatars-Chelkans (Kuu-kiji)" (1985) (
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morphology of Turkic languages" (1979), and "Historical typological phonology of Turkic languages" (1988). Baskakov's concept recognized isomorphism of all language levels, from the top syntax level.
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province, and mother was a daughter of an official and a teacher. In a book about Russian surnames of Turkic origin (1979) Baskakov gives the following comment about his surname: "The surname
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