kauskas, and the late scholar’s colleague Jan Jurkiewicius gave a fine account of J. Ochmański’s scholarly career.

Aloyzas Vidugiris

Aloyzas VIDUGIRIS Lietuvių kalbos institutas Antakalnio g. 6 LT-2055 Vilnius, Lietuva

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IN MEMORIAM TATJANA BULYGINA (1929–2000)

On April 19, 2000, Tatjana Bulygina (Shmelyova) died in Moscow after a serious illness. We have lost a distinguished researcher of the Lithuanian language and a sincere friend of our nation.

T. Bulygina was born on May 16, 1929, in Moscow. In 1951 she graduated with a specialization in English from Moscow University. Her closest fellow students were later renowned Russian scholars, well known in Lithuania too: the Orientalist Tatjana Jelizarenkova, Indo-Europeanist Viacheslav Ivanov, and Vladimir Toporov, who graduated in Slavic studies in the same year.

Under the supervision of Professor Mikhail Peterson, T. Bulygina wrote a candidate’s dissertation on constructions with the genitive in contemporary standard Lithuanian. She also published an article on the dissertation topic in “Lietuvių kalbotyros klausimai” (1959, 2, pp. 90–108). After defending her dissertation in 1960, T. Bulygina devoted herself especially to questions in the theory of linguistics. In 1964 she published a study on the Prague Linguistic School (in: Osnovnye napravlenija strukturalizma. M., 1964, pp. 46–126). In 1968 her study devoted to problems of grammatical oppositions was published (in: Issledovanija po obščej teorii gramatiki. M., 1968, pp. 175–231). Particularly important for researchers of the Lithuanian language is T. Bulygina’s work “The Morphological Structure of the Word in Contemporary Standard Lithuanian” (in: Morfologičeskaja struktura slova v indoevropejskich jazykach. M., 1970, pp. 7–70), in which an attempt was made for the first time to describe structurally the morphological composition of a Lithuanian word.

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 chose Russian and Lithuanian as the principal linguistic material. In 1980 T. Bulygina was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philological Sciences for this work.

T. Bulygina published interesting articles on sentence semantics and semiotics. Together with her son Aleksej Shmelyov, she translated into Russian works on semiotics

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the pioneer Charles Sanders Peirce’s work “Speculative grammar” (in: Semiotika. M., 1983, pp. 151–210).

From 1954 until her death, T. Bulygina worked at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She taught Lithuanian at Moscow University. She supervised and served as an opponent for dissertations on Lithuanian studies, and delivered papers at conferences of Balticists. T. Bulygina’s final work on Lithuanian studies was the article “The Lithuanian Language,” which she wrote for the multivolume work “Languages of the World,” being prepared by the Institute of Linguistics. Although already suffering from illness, she also edited other articles on the Baltic languages for this work.

Tatjana Bulygina was buried in Troekurovskoye Cemetery, on the southwestern outskirts of Moscow, not far from the grave of her husband, the eminent Russian lexicologist and Academician Dmitry Shmelyov. Sadly, the place beside her husband that had been intended for the deceased was taken by her younger son Ivan, whose tragic death caused his parents much grief. The family’s philological traditions are now to be carried on by her son Aleksey, who, among other things, also speaks Lithuanian.

The author of this article recalls many pleasant encounters with Tatjana Bulygina and members of her family in Moscow, Vilnius, Riga, and Palanga. We last met just a few weeks before her death—on March 11 in Moscow, at the Jurgis Baltrušaitis House, during a commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Lithuania’s independence. It did not occur to us then that this would be our final meeting.

Algirdas Sabaliauskas

Algirdas SABALIAUSKAS Institute of the Lithuanian Language Antakalnio St. 6 LT-2055 Vilnius, Lithuania

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