Biography of the Academician

Timeline

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   1942

   Khalkabad

   Birth

   Born on 20 September in the village of Yabi in Khalkabad (Chapaev collective farm), Kegeyli District, into the farming family of Daulet Palymbetov — later a veteran of the Second World War and a renowned cotton-growing brigade leader.

2. until 1959

   School years

   First teachers

   Primary school, the Stakhanov seven-year school and the Khalkabad secondary boarding school. His first teachers were Elmurat Khojamuratov, Embergen Erimbetov, Khilal Muyatdinov, Atabay Doshetov and the folk bard (bakhsy) Genjebay Tileumuratov, who opened the boy’s eyes to the beauty of the living Karakalpak word.

3. 1959–1964

   Nukus

   Diploma with honours

   Graduated with honours from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Karakalpak State Pedagogical Institute. His mentors were K. Berdimuratov, A. Esemuratov, D. Nasyrov, S. Akhmetov and Academician S. Kamalov.

4. 1967–1972

   Kyiv, Leningrad

   The Shcherba school of phonology

   Two years of research training: first at the experimental phonetics laboratory of Kyiv State University under Prof. N. I. Totskaya, then at the world-famous Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics named after Academician L. V. Shcherba at Leningrad State University.

   He studied under M. I. Matusevich, L. R. Zinder, L. V. Bondarko, L. A. Verbitskaya (later President of St Petersburg State University), Academician A. N. Kononov, A. M. Shcherbak and S. N. Ivanov.

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   1972

   Leningrad

   Candidate of Philology

   Defended the dissertation “Vocalism of the Modern Karakalpak Literary Language (an Experimental-Phonetic Study)”. In 1976 it was published as a monograph in Samarkand. From 1972 to 1978 he served as deputy dean.

6. 1978–1985

   Berdakh KSU

   Head of the Department of Karakalpak Linguistics

   In 1979 his first university textbook, “Modern Karakalpak. Phonetics, Lexicology”, was published. In 1980/1982 he received the academic title of Associate Professor.

7. 1985–1996

   11 years as dean

   Dean

   Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Dean of the Faculty of Philology at Berdakh Karakalpak State University. From 1992 to 1996 he also headed the Department of General Linguistics.

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   1992–1993

   Recognition

   Professorship and the theory of vowel harmony

   1992 — the title of Professor and the honorary title “Honoured Scientist of the Republic of Karakalpakstan”. 1993 — the fundamental monograph “Vowel Harmony in the Karakalpak Language” and the start of work on a Latin-based Karakalpak alphabet.

9. 94

   1994

   Almaty

   Doctor of Philology

   Defended his doctoral dissertation “The Sound System of the Modern Karakalpak Literary Language” at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan. In 1995 it was published in Nukus as a book.

10. 1995

    Tashkent

    Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan

    Elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan — the first academician in the field of Karakalpak linguistics.

11. 1996–2012

    A school of students

    Head of department again

    Once again headed the Department of Karakalpak Linguistics — 27 years in total as a head of department. Chairman of the specialised dissertation council. Published “A History of Karakalpak Linguistics” (2001), “Foundations of Linguistics” (2007) and the two volumes “Syntax” (2009) and “Morphology” (2010).

12. Áá

    2011–2012

    Spelling

    Code of spelling rules

    Co-author of the “Code of Karakalpak Spelling Rules” (Bilim, Nukus). In 2012 his colleagues and students published a jubilee collection of memoirs for his 70th birthday.

13. 

    2015

    Memory

    8 April 2015

    Academician Abatbay Dauletov passed away, leaving more than 200 scholarly works, 53 textbooks and a school of students — over ten candidates and doctors of science and dozens of master’s graduates.