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35: 315:, he recognized three rather than two objects of study: speech activity, language systems, and language material. He placed emphasis on the question of the capacity of the speaker to produce sentences never previously heard, a question which would become important to the linguistics of the later twentieth century. He also emphasized the importance of experiments in linguistics, particularly that of negative results, developing methods which became important for field study. He was the teacher of the lexicographer 367: 292:, defined by him as the grouping of sounds into "sound types". In 1912 he defended his master's thesis and in 1915 received his doctorate from St. Petersburg University, where he was a professor from 1916 to 1941. He became the founder of the so-called " 280:
studying the phonetics of a series of languages using experimental methods; on his return to Russia he began setting up an experimental phonetics laboratory, paying for equipment from his own stipend, and this became the
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Beyond phonology, Shcherba made significant contributions to the wider fields of linguistics and lexicography. In contrast to
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sentence, which consists of words whose roots do not exist in Russian, but has correct construction in terms of
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As early as 1912, basing himself on the ideas of Baudouin de Courtenay, he elaborated the concept of the
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During the autumn holidays of 1907 and 1908, on the advice of Baudouin de Courtenay, he studied the
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February 20] 1880 – December 26, 1944) was a Russian Empire and Soviet
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1936. Russko-francuzskij slovar’ — Dictionnaire russe-français, 1st edition.
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and wrote a description of the Mužakow dialect (spoken in the east, near
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1979 postal cover of the Soviet Union featuring portrait of Lev Shcherba.
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Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)
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English translation 1995, Towards a general theory of lexicography
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Russkie glasnye v kachestvennom i kolichestvennom otnoshenii
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and graduated in 1903. In 1906 he traveled abroad, first to
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O.S.
Ihumen
Minsk Governorate
Russian Empire
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Soviet Union
Saint Petersburg Imperial University
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Leningrad State University
Doctoral advisor
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
Sergey Ozhegov
Lev Zinder
Viktor Vinogradov
Russian
Belarusian
O.S.
linguist
lexicographer
phonetics
phonology
Minsk Governorate
Russian Empire
Chervyen
Belarus
Kiev
Kiev University
St. Petersburg University

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