Era V. Kuznetsova: A Life in Scholarship and Scholarship as Life
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https://doi.org/10.15826/qr.2018.3.333Keywords:
E.V. Kuznetsova; lexicology; lexicography; the Russian Verb research group; Ural State University; Ural Semantic SchoolAbstract
The authors consider the life and scholarly activity of Era Vasilyevna Kuznetsova (1927–1988), a doctor of philology, professor, and the first head of the Department of the Modern Russian Language at Ural State University. The article describes her rich inner world of emotions and scholarly thinking, focusing on the peculiarities of her academic style and the manner and direction of her work. Her biography is considered within the historical and social context and the circumstances of her private life, scholarly research, and achievements. Being an outstanding linguist, Kuznetsova was a remarkable and open-minded person with a wonderful capacity for communication. She sincerely believed in social justice and was convinced that it was possible to change the world ethically and socially in accordance with the laws of social harmony. She was a talented scholar: one could not doubt her linguistic gift. Her manner of thinking was logical; she easily became fascinated with new ideas and knew how to introduce them to others. She was a prominent scholar and the leader of a research group which laid the foundations for lexicological and lexicographic studies at Ural State University. Kuznetsova released her main works during the 1970s and 1980s, when structural semantic linguistics was being formed amidst heated discussions and arguments. In academia, she is known as the most influential specialist in lexical semantics, the systemic organisation of vocabulary, and the semantics and grammar of the Russian verb, the author and editor of a number of monographs and a textbook, and the organiser and head of the Russian Verb research group, which gave rise to the Ural Semantic School in the late 1990s.
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Kazarin, Yu. V. (1997). Polevskoi – Moskva [Polevskoy ‒ Moscow]. In Babenko, L. G. (Ed.). Russkaya glagol’naya leksika: peresekaemost’ paradigm. Pamyati Ery Vasil’evny Kuznetsovoi. Yekaterinburg, Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta, pp. 266–486.
Kazarin, Yu. V. (Ed.). (2011). Ural’skaya semanticheskaya shkola: istoriya, lyudi, sobytiya [The Ural Semantic School: History, People, Events]. Yekaterinburg, Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta. 348 p.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (1958). K voprosu o spetsifike slovarnogo sostava russkikh narodnykh govorov [On the Peculiarities of the Vocabulary of Russian Local Dialects]. In Uchenye zapiski Ural’skogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Iss. 2. Yazykoznanie. Sverdlovsk, Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta, pp. 58–72.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (1960). O strukture slovarnoi stat’i v oblastnom slovare [On the Structure of a Dictionary Entry in a Regional Dictionary]. In Uchenye zapiski Ural’skogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Iss. 3. Yazykoznanie. Sverdlovsk, Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta, pp. 165–179.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (1963). Vozvratnye glagoly v govorakh Srednego Urala [Reflexive Verbs in the Dialects of the Central Urals]. In Lingvisticheskii sbornik. Iss. 1. Sverdlovsk, Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta, pp. 84–95.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (1967). Metod stupenchatoi identifikatsii v opisanii leksiko-semanticheskikh grupp slov [Method of Step-by-step Identification in the Description of Lexical Semantic Groups of Words]. In Mezhvuzovskaya konferentsiya po porozhdayushchim grammatikam. Tezisy dokladov. Tartu, Tartuskii gosudarstvennyi universitet. pp. 65–67.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (1968). Metodicheskie ukazaniya i materialy k spetsseminaru “Sistemnye otnosheniya v leksike” [Methodical Instructions and Materials for the Specialised Seminar “Systemic Relations in Vocabulary”]. Donetsk, S. n. 79 p.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (1978). O sootnoshenii mnogoznachnosti i funktsional’noi ekvivalentnosti slov [On the Correlation between Polysemy and the Functional Equivalence of Words]. In Nauchnye doklady vysshei shkoly. Filologicheskie nauki. No. 2, pp. 97‒103.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (1980). Russkaya leksika kak sistema. Uchebnoe posobie [Russian Vocabulary as a System. Textbook.]. Sverdlovsk, Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta. 89 p.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (1982). Itogi i perspektivy semanticheskoi klassifikatsii russkikh glagolov [Results and Perspectives of the Semantic Classification of Russian Verbs]. In Kuznetsova, E. V. (Ed.). Semanticheskie klassy russkikh glagolov. Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Sverdlovsk, Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta, pp. 3‒10.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (1982). Leksikologiya russkogo yazyka. Uchebnoe posobie [Lexicology of the Russian Language. Textbook]. Moscow, Vysshaya shkola. 216 p.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (1985). Semanticheskaya model’ predlozheniya s predikatami tipa “schitat’” i sposoby ee realizatsii [The Semantic Model of a Sentence with Predicates of the считать Type and Ways to Implement it]. In Adlivankin, S. Yu., Kubryakova, E. S., Cherepanov, I. Yu. (Eds.). Derivatsiya i istoriya yazyka. Tezisy dokladov mezhvuzovskoi nauchnoi konferentsii. Perm’, 17‒19 June 1985. Perm’, Izdatel’stvo Permskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (1989). Leksikologiya russkogo yazyka. Uchebnoe posobie [Lexicology of the Russian Language. Textbook]. Ed. 2. Moscow, Vysshaya shkola. 216 p.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (Ed.). (1988). Leksiko-semanticheskie gruppy russkikh glagolov. Uchebnyi slovar’-spravochnik [Lexical Semantic Groups of Russian Verbs. Textbook. Dictionary and Reference Book]. Sverdlovsk, Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta. 152 p.
Kuznetsova, E. V. (Ed.). (1989). Leksiko-semanticheskie gruppy russkikh glagolov [Lexical-Semantic Groups of Russian Verbs]. Irkutsk, Izdatel’stvo Irkutskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. 180 p.
Lopushanskaya, S. P. (1997). Slova pamyati ob Ere Vasil’evne Kuznetsovoi. Vspominaniya kolleg ob Ere Vasil’evne Kuznetsovoi [Words of Memory about Era Vasilyevna Kuznetsova. Recollections of Colleagues about Era Vasilyevna Kuznetsova]. In Babenko, L. G. (Ed.). Russkaya glagol’naya leksika: peresekaemost’ paradigm. Pamyati Ery Vasil’evny Kuznetsovoi. Yekaterinburg, Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta, pp. 488–489.
Ural’skaya semanticheskaya shkola. Ural’skii federal’nyi universitet [The Ural Semantic School. Ural Federal University]. (2013). In Entsiklopediya kognitivnoi lingvistiki: nauchnye shkoly i napravleniya. Tambov, OOO “Tsifra”, pp. 14‒28.
Vovchok, P. A. (Ed.). (1964‒1999). Slovar’ russkikh govorov Srednego Urala v 7 t. [Dictionary of Russian Dialects of the Central Urals. 7 Vols.]. Sverdlovsk, Sredne-Ural’skoe knizhnoe izdatel’stvo. (Avtor-sostavitel’ razdela “Glagol’naya leksika” E. V. Glazyrina).
Zolotova, G. A. (1997). Slova pamyati ob Ere Vasil’evne Kuznetsovoi. Vspominaniya kolleg ob Ere Vasil’evne Kuznetsovoi [Words of Memory about Era Vasilyevna Kuznetsova. Recollections of Colleagues about Era Vasilyevna Kuznetsova]. In Babenko, L. G. (Ed.). Russkaya glagol’naya leksika: peresekaemost’ paradigm. Pamyati Ery Vasil’evny Kuznetsovoi. Yekaterinburg, Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta, pp. 487–488.
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Babenko, L., & Kazarin, Y. (2018). Era V. Kuznetsova: A Life in Scholarship and Scholarship as Life. Quaestio Rossica, 6(3), 877–888. https://doi.org/10.15826/qr.2018.3.333
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