Introduction to linguistics. 5th edition. Polivanov E.D.

e. D. Polivanov (1891-1938), a student of I. A. Baudouin de Kurtene, belongs to the brilliant galaxy of domestic linguists. He was formed as a scientist in the first quarter of the 20th century, combined the bright talent of the researcher, the unusual abilities of polyglot and deep knowledge in the field of language theory. He owns works that have not lost their relevance today, according to the theory of language and its evolution, comparative Indo -Europeanism, phonetics, phonology, accentology, theory of graphics and spelling, grammar and phonetics of the Japanese, Chinese, Dungan, Georgian, Uzbek, Turkish and others Languages.

In the published work, which first saw the light in 1928, the author managed to state the main provisions of his linguistic concept in a public form. and graduate students of philological universities studying oriental languages.