Everything about Nikolai Trubetzkoy totally explained
Prince
Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (also: Trubetskoy) (
Russian: Николай Сергеевич Трубецкой (
Moscow,
April 15,
1890 -
Vienna,
June 25,
1938) was a Russian
linguist and
historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the
Prague School of
structural linguistics. He is widely considered to be the founder of
morphophonology. He was also associated with the Russian
Eurasianists.
Trubetzkoy was born into an extremely refined environment. His father was a first-rank philosopher whose lineage ascended to the medieval rulers of
Lithuania. Having graduated from the
Moscow University (
1913), Trubetzkoy delivered lectures there until the revolution. Thereafter he moved first to the university of
Rostov-na-Donu, then to the university of
Sofia (1920-22), and finally took the chair of Professor of Slavic Philology at the
University of Vienna (1922-1938). He died from a heart attack attributed to
Nazi persecution following his publishing an article highly critical of
Hitler's theories.
Trubetzkoy's chief contributions to linguistics lie in the domain of
phonology, in particular in analyses of the phonological systems of individual languages and in search for general and universal phonological laws. His magnum opus,
Grundzüge der Phonologie (Principles of Phonology), was issued posthumously. In this book he famously defined
phoneme as the smallest distinctive unit within the structure of a given language. This work was crucial in establishing phonology as a discipline separate from
phonetics.
It is sometimes hard to distinguish Trubetzkoy's views from those of his friend
Roman Jakobson, who should be credited with spreading the Prague School views on phonology after Trubetzkoy's premature death.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Nikolai Trubetzkoy'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://nikolai_trubetzkoy.totallyexplained.com">Nikolai Trubetzkoy Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
