Roman Jakobson and the Aleut materials collected by Waldemar Jochelson


2023. №4, 117-128

Nikolai B. Vakhtin
European University at St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia; Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia; nvakhtin@gmail.com

Abstract:

This paper presents the text of a 1941 work by Roman Jakobson, which has never been fully published, — his description of Vladimir (Waldemar) Jochelson’s Aleut materials (the materials, as well as Jakobson’s description, are stored at the New York Public Library). The publication is provided with a detailed commentary.

Keywords
Aleut
Eskimo-Aleut
history of linguistics
Jakobson R. O.
Jochelson V. I.

For citation:

Vakhtin N. B. Roman Jakobson and the Aleut materials collected by Waldemar Jochelson. Voprosy Jazykoznanija, 2023, 4: 117–128.

Acknowledgements:

The pubilsher is grateful to Svetlana Podrezova, the head of the Phonographic Archive at the Institute of Russian Literature, for access to the materials.