HISTORICAL PHONETICS OF THE UDMURT LANGUAGE IN THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF V.K. KELMAKOV

Abstract

The paper is dedicated to the anniversary of a talented scientist and teacher, an outstanding Russian Finno-Ugrist, Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of General and Finno-Ugric Linguistics of the Institute of Udmurt Philology, Finno-Ugric Studies and Journalism of Udmurt State University, Valey Kelmakovich Kelmakov. The paper identifies the main problems in the historical phonetics of the Udmurt language, considered in the works of the researcher: sources of the study of historical phonetics, reconstruction of the Pra-Udmurt vocalism of the first and non-first syllables, diachronic description of the Udmurt accentuation, reconstruction of Pra-Udmurt consonantism, trends and causes of phonetic processes that took place in the period from the Proto-Permian language to the modern state of the Udmurt language and its dialects. The problems of reconstruction of the vocal and consonant systems of the Udmurt language, which are of particular interest to Permian linguistics, are covered in detail. The personal contribution of the scientist to the solution of topical problems of historical and dialect phonetics of the Udmurt language, to the development of comparative historical Finno-Ugric studies is shown.