Dialectological Materials in the Archive of Alexander Grigoriev, the Founder of the Tomsk Dialectological School

The article presents an analytical description of the Siberian dialectological materials of the founder of the Tomsk Dialectological School Alexander Dmitrievich Grigoriev, a Russian ethnographer, historian, dialectologist, folklorist, and public figure. Grigoriev’s dialecto-logical materials are records of the Russian Siberian dialect speech of the first third of the 20th century. They have practically not been described in the domestic studies and have not been introduced into the research discourse. Grigoriev’s research and teaching activities at Tomsk University are Siberian dialectological studies. He investigates the Russian dialects of Siberia, organizes expeditions and actively participates in them. The materials collected during these expeditions were the basis for further research of the Russian dialects of Siberia, which Grigoriev continued in Czechoslovakia. His personal handwritten and typewritten archival fund is stored in Prague. Part of Grigoriev’s Prague archive is housed in the Slavonic Library, a division of the National Library of the Czech Republic (Clementinum, Prague). It is here that the Siberian dialectological materials this article describes are located. The archive under study includes (1) several copies of the publication Program for Collecting Information Necessary for Compiling a Dialectological Map of the Russian Language in Siberia: North Great Russian and Middle Great Russian Dialects by A.D. Grigoriev, and (2) handwritten records of the speech of Siberians made during dialectological expeditions. The Program was analyzed for its content and the nature of handwritten notes, including researchers’ and respondents ones. The expedition materials were analyzed for the information they contain and for the organization of their recording. As a result, it has been revealed that Grigoriev’s dialectological materials consistently reflect the specifics of the research paradigm linguistics used at the origins of dialectological studies. The notes that are significant for the study can also be used for solving modern dialectological problems. The materials of the studied archive correspond to the initial stage of the formation of methods of field linguistics.

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