In the Labyrinths of Time and Language: on the 85th Anniversary of Prof. L.G. Zubkova

Abstract

Lyudmila Georgievna Zubkova was a professor, Doctor of Philology, famous Russian linguist, author of more than 100 works on general and comparative historical linguistics, philosophy and theory of language, history of linguistics, methodology of linguistics, phonology, morphonology, morphology of the Russian language, linguistic semantics and semiotics. She supervised more than 20 candidates of philological sciences. L.G. Zubkova worked at Peoples’ Friendship University named after Patrice Lumumba (1960-2002), taught at Lomonosov Moscow State University and was a professor of the Department of Russian Language and General Linguistics at Moscow State Pedagogical University (2002-2021). The study gives a review of the most significant stages of professor L.G. Zubkova’s scientific activity and her scientific heritage.

Keywords

• philosophy of language
• theory of language
• theory and history of linguistics
• methodology of linguistics
• general linguistics
• typological linguistics
• phonology
• morphonology
• morphology
• linguistic semantics
• linguistic semiotics