In memoriam Tatjana Bulygina

cauliflower, o J. Ochmanski- ’s scientific path was beautifully presented by the late colleague Janas Jurkiewiczius. Aloyzas Vidugiris Aloyzas AVERAGE Received 2000 01 12 Institute of Lithuanian Language Antakalnio g. 6 LT-2055 Vilnius, Lithuania IN MEMORIAM TATJANA BULYGINA (1929-2000) 2000 m. April 19 In Moscow po severe illness died Tatyana Bulygina (Shmeliova). We have lost a prominent Lithuanian language researcher, a sincere friend of our nation. T. Bulygina was born 1929 m. May day 16 Moscow. 1951 m. completed Moscow University, English language specialty. Her closest study friends were later famous, well ir Famous Russian scientists in Lithuania: orientalist Tatjana na Jelizarenkova, Indo-Europeanist Vyacheslav Ivanov, who graduated from Slavistics in the same year Vladimir Toporov. Led by Professor Mikhail Peterson T. Bulygina writes a candidate dissertation on the present-day Lithuanian literary language compounds in the pronoun. su The dissertation topic is ji published by ir "In the Questions of Lithuanian Linguistics" (1959, 2, p. 90-108). 1960 m. After defending T. her dissertation, Bulygina devoted herself especially to questions of linguistic theory. 1964 m. ji publishes a study on The Prague Language School (Kn. : Basics of Structuralism. M., 1964, is published her research on the problems of p. 46-126). 1968 m. grammatical oppositions (k.: Issledovanija po obščej teorii gramatiki. M., 1968, p. 175— 231). For Lithuanian language researchers, T. Bulygina’s work “Morphological structure of the word in contemporary Lithuanian literary language” (Morfologičeskaja struktura slova v indoevropejskich jazykach, M., 1970, pp. 7-70) is of particular importance, as it was the first attempt to describe structurally the morphological structure of the word in Lithuanian language. In 1977, T. Bulygina’s most important work, Problems of the Theory of Morphological Models (Problemy teorii morfologičeskich modelej, M., 1977), was published as a separate book. In this work, the author has chosen Russian and Lithuanian as the main linguistic material. In 1980, T. Bulygin was awarded the doctorate of philology for this work. Bulygina published interesting articles on the semantics and semiotics of sentences. Together with her son Alexei Shmeliov, she translated Speculative Grammar by Charles Sanders Peirce into Russian. 186 (kn. : Semiotics. M., 1983, p. 151—210). From 1954 year to death T. Bulygina worked Russian Academy of Sciences. She taught Lithuanian at Moscow University. ji She was responsible for the opposition ir of Lithuanianist dissertations, reading papers at Baltist conferences. Last T. The Lithuanian language — article „Lietuvių kalba“ (Lithuanian language), ji which he wrote for the multi-volume work „World Languages“ prepared by the Institute of Linguistics. For this work, she edited other articles on the Baltic languages, ir already afflicted by illness. Tatyana Bulygina is buried in Troekurovskaya cemetery on the southwestern outskirts of Moscow, not far from the tomb of her husband, the famous Russian lexicologist and academician Dmitry Shmelev. Unfortunately, the place reserved for the deceased next to her husband was taken by the younger son who tragically died and caused much pain to her parents. Ivan. Now the philological traditions of the family are destined to be continued by his son Aleksejuir s, who, among other things, speaks Lithuanian. The author of this article remembers many pleasant meetings with Tatyana Bulygina and her family members in Moscow, Vilnius, Riga, Palanga. We last met just a few weeks before her death — on March 11 in Moscow, at the home of Jurgis Baltrušaitis, at the tenth anniversary of Lithuania’s independence. It was not thought that this would be the last time. Algirdas Sabaliauskas Algirdas SABALIAUSKAS Received 2000 11 12 Lithuanian Language Institute Antakalnio g. 6 LT-2055 Vilnius, Lithuania 187