Professor Iryda Grek-Pabisowa (1932-2021) Cover Image

Profesor Iryda Grek-Pabisowa (1932-2021)
Professor Iryda Grek-Pabisowa (1932-2021)

Author(s): Małgorzata Ostrówka, Mirosław Jankowiak
Subject(s): Language studies, Regional Geography, Recent History (1900 till today), Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Iryda Grek-Pabisowa; obituary; Russian language; Old Believers; North Borderland Polish language; "Acta Baltico-Slavica";

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the profile of Iryda Grek-Pabisowa, a renowned linguist, associated with the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences for sixty years. She was a long-serving head of North Borderland Polish, and the deputy director of the Institute for two terms (1996–2003). She was a pioneer of research on the language and culture of Old Believers in Poland, and the language of Poles in Belarus and Lithuania. The most important research areas on which she focused were dialectology and lexicography: the study and description of the subdialects of Old Believers living in Poland (e.g. A Dictionary of the Dialect of Old Believers Living in Poland), the Russian language (e.g. The Great Russian-Polish Dictionary) and North Borderland Polish (7 monographs and A Dictionary of the Spoken Polish of the North-Eastern Borderland). She is the author or co-author of about 160 articles, 11 monographs and 7 dictionaries. In 1974–2003 she was associated with the journal Acta Baltico-Slavica, initially as its secretary and then editor-in-chief.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 45
  • Page Range: 1-15
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish