Selected works of Nikolai Marr
Selected works | 5 volumes
Moscow - Leningrad: State Academy of the History of Material Culture (GAIMK), State Social and Economic Publishing House (GSEI), 1933-1937
Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr; Russian philologist and archeologist, the founder of the “New Linguistic Doctrine” (ca. 1864-1934). N. J. Marr was born in Kutaisi, Georgia, between 1863 and 1865, of a Scottish father and a Georgian mother. After attending the gymnasium in Kutaisi, he entered the Department of Oriental Languages at St. Petersburg University in 1884. His student years were devoted to the study of the languages of the Caucasus and the Near East. He graduated with a silver medal in 1888, and passed his Master’s examinations in 1891, upon which he was appointed a Lecturer in Armenian Studies in his alma mater.
The early part of Marr’s career was dedicated to Armenian and Kartvelian [Georgian] studies. The most significant part of Marr’s scholarly legacy is his editions of Georgian, Armenian, and Arab manuscripts, some of which he discovered during expeditions to the monastery of Aphon (Mt. Athos) in 1898, and to Sinai and Jerusalem in 1902. In addition, he conducted pioneering excavations of the medieval Armenian capital Ani (1892-93, 1904-17), the Armenian Hellenistic temple in Garni (1909-10), and the Urartean fortress Toprakkale (1916). His linguistic works include Old Armenian (1903), Laz (1910), and Old Georgian (1925) grammars, as well as an Abkhazian-Russian dictionary. Most of Marr’s works were written in Russian, but some are in Georgian or Armenian. Read more...
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- Кавказоведение и абхазский язык (Caucasian Studies and Abkhaz Language)
Stages of development of the Japhetic theory. Leningrad, GAIMK, 1933, Vol. I, pp. 59-78 (Том 1 Избранные работы, т. I. Этапы развития яфетической теории. Л., 1933.) - Орудивный и исходный падежи в кабардинском и абхазском (Instrumental and initial cases in Kabardian and Abkhazian)
The main issues of linguistics. M.-L., 1936, Vol. II. pp. 234-241 (Том 2 Основные вопросы языкознания. — Ленинград, ГСЭИ, 1936 г.) - Абхазские аналитический алфавит (The Abkhazian analytical alphabet)
The main issues of linguistics. M.-L., 1936, Vol. II. pp. 321-351 (Том 2 Основные вопросы языкознания. — Ленинград, ГСЭИ, 1936 г.) - Постановка учения о языке в мировом масштабе и абхазский язык (Statement of the doctrine of language on a world scale and the Abkhaz language)
Basic questions of the history of language. M.-L., 1937, Vol. IV. pp.53-84 (Том 4. Основные вопросы истории языка. — Ленинград, ГСЭИ, 1937 г.) - Сухум и Туапсе (Sukhum and Tuapse)
Ethno and glottogony of Eastern Europe. M.-L., 1935, Vol V, pp. 153-161 (Том 5. Этно- и глоттогония Восточной Европы. — Москва — Ленинград, ГСЭИ, 1935 г.) - Абхазоведение и абхазы (Abkhazology and Abkhazians)
Ethno and glottogony of Eastern Europe. M.-L., 1935, Vol V, pp. 162-186 (Том 5. Этно- и глоттогония Восточной Европы. — Москва — Ленинград, ГСЭИ, 1935 г.) - Из двухэлементных абхазских слов (From two-element Abkhazian words)
Ethno and glottogony of Eastern Europe. M.-L., 1935, Vol V, pp. 385-386 (Том 5. Этно- и глоттогония Восточной Европы. — Москва — Ленинград, ГСЭИ, 1935 г.)
***** - Изъ лингвистической поѣздки въ Абхазiю (Ethnological results of a linguistic excursion in Abkhazia)
Izvestia Imperial Academy of Sciences. VI / 1913, Volume 7, Issue 6, 303–334 (Извѣстія Императорской Академіи Наукъ. VI серiя, 1913, том 7, выпуск 6, страницы 303–334)