Georgi Rikov

{{short description|Bulgarian linguist and scientist (1946–2002)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Georgi Todorov Rikov

| image = Georgi rikov1.JPG

| native_name = Георги Тодоров Риков

| native_name_lang = bg

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|08|14}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|12|28|1946|08|14}}

| occupation = Linguist, Philologist

}}

Georgi Todorov Rikov ({{langx|bg|Георги Тодоров Риков}}) (14 August 1946 – 28 December 2002){{Cite journal |last=Mihaylova |first=Bilyana |date=2006 |title=Prof. Georgi T. Rikov (14. 08. 1946 – 28. 12. 2002). |url=https://www.academia.edu/3989735 |journal=Linguistique Balkanique |language=Fr |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=311–319 |issn=0324-1653 |url-access=registration}} was a Bulgarian linguist and scientist, the editor-in-chief of Orpheus: Journal of Indo-European and Thracian Studies.{{cite journal |year=2001–2002 |title=In memoriam: Prof. Dr Georgi Rikov, DSc |url=https://balkanstudies.bg/images/Orpheus_11-12_2001-2002.pdf |journal=Orpheus: Journal of Indo-European and Thracian Studies |volume=11–12 |page=147 |issn=0861-9387}}

Rikov attended Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", graduating in 1972. From 1977 through 1992, he worked at the Institute for Bulgarian Language of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. From 1992 through 2002, he worked in the department of General, Indo-European and Balkan Languages at Sofia University.{{Cite journal |last1=Zvezdova |first1=Elitsa |last2=Dimitrova |first2=Magdalena |date=2019 |title=Георги Риков. Избрани статии по индоевропейско езикознание и етимология. УИ "Свети Климент Охридски", 2018 г. |trans-title=Review: Georgi Rikov. Selected Papers in Indo-European Linguistics and Etymology. "St. Kliment Ohridski" University of Applied Sciences, 2018. |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=796051 |journal=Съвременна лингвистика |language=bg |issue=1 |pages=169–170 |issn=2603-4425 |url-access=registration |access-date=2023-12-24 |via=CEEOL}}

His body of work has been divided into five sections: Indo-European linguistics, with a focus on a present nasal infix in the Heto-Luwian languages called "ultimae laryngalis"; Slavic studies with a focus on ska- etymology; Anatolian languages; Greek; and miscellanea.{{Cite book |last=Rikov |first=Georgi |url=https://www.academia.edu/37855480 |title=Selected Papers on Indo-European Linguistics and Etymology |publisher=Sofia University Press |year=2018 |isbn= |editor-last=Mihaylova |editor-first=Bilyana |edition=1 |location=Bulgaria |pages=foreword |editor-last2=Assenova |editor-first2=Petya |editor-last3=Tarpomanova |editor-first3=Ekaterina |editor-last4=Iliev |editor-first4=Dimitar |editor-last5=Boeva |editor-first5=Elina |url-access=registration}}

Published works

A copy of select papers was published in 2018, funded by a grant from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". The articles were compiled from the journals Linquistique Balkanique {{ISSN|0324-1653}}, Orpheus: Journal of Indo-European and Thracian Studies {{ISSN|0861-9387}}, Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia {{ISSN|1427-8219}}, and Studia Indogermanica Lodziensia {{ISSN|1506-7254}}, all with the permission of his sister Reni Rikova. One of the editors of that publication, Professor Biliana Mihaylova of Sofia University's department of General, Indo-European and Balkan Languages, also published a bibliography of Rikov's works dating from 1979 through 2002.{{Cite web |last=Mihaylova |first=Bilyana |title=Bibliographie de Georgi T. Rikov (1946–2002) |url=https://www.academia.edu/3989685 |access-date=2023-12-23 |website=Academia.edu}}

His works have been described to "represent an incalculable wealth and an example of precise work, attention to every little element of language".

= Select bibliography =

== Indo-European linguistics ==

{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1992 |title=Sonants, Laryngeals and the Indo-European Nasal Infix Presents. |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=523188 |journal=Orpheus. Journal of Indo-European and Thracian Studies |issue=2 |pages=87–96 |issn=0861-9387 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-12-24 |via=CEEOL}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1993 |title=Lithuanian peneti, peslas and the Indo-European Nasal Infix Presents |url=https://www.academia.edu/37855480 |journal=Linguistica Baltica |issue=2 |pages=115–119 |issn=1230-3984 |url-access=registration |access-date=2023-12-23}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1996 |title=On the Formation of the Hittite Nasal Verbs in -na-/-niya- |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=760710 |journal=Orpheus. Journal of Indo-European and Thracian Studies |issue=6 |pages=71–79 |issn=0861-9387 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-12-24 |via=CEEOL}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1997 |title=Hittite (i)yanna-, Tocharian B yanem and the Indo-European Nasal Infix Présents of the Type CRenhx |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=760718 |journal=Orpheus. Journal of Indo-European and Thracian Studies |issue=7 |pages=9–36 |issn=0861-9387 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-12-24 |via=CEEOL}}

== Slavic linguistics ==

{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1981 |title=Основа и флексия в индоевропейската и праславянската глаголна система |trans-title=Stem and inflection in Indo-European and the Proto-Slavic verb system |journal=Съпоставително езикознание |language=Bg |volume=6 |issue=3–5 |pages=14–18 |issn=0204-8701|url=http://scripta-bulgarica.eu/en/node/3771}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1986 |title=The Indo-European ex-Conjugation and the Origin of the Proterodynamic VerbInflection (part 1) |journal=Linguistique Balkanique |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=19–58 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1987 |title=The Indo-European ex-Conjugation and the Origin of the Proterodynamic VerbInflection (part 2) |journal=Linguistique Balkanique |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=209–245 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1987 |title=Бълг. диал. мренка, мрянка |journal=Балканско езикозние |language=bg |volume=37 |issue=1–2 |pages=106–108 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1987 |title=Бълг. мотая=лит. matóti, matóju |journal=Балканско езикозние |language=bg |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=198–199 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1987 |title=Преслав. *strąkъ (> бълг. стрък), норв. диал. strange 'стъбло без клони, тояга, пън'и пр |journal=Балканско езикозние |language=bg |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=307–310}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1987 |title=Праслав. *njuxāti, *njuxā ją (бълг. диал. нюам) |journal=Балканско езикозние |language=bg |volume=37 |issue=6 |pages=472–474 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1988 |title=Бълг. диал.cmpakà и cmpykà |journal=Балканско езикозние |language=bg |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=27–28 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite book |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |url=http://www.isybislaw.ispan.waw.pl/ShowDocument.do?documentId=101852 |title=Prasłowiańszczyzna i jej rozpad |publisher=Wydawn. Energeia |year=1998 |isbn=9788385118879 |editor-last=Rusek |editor-first=Jerzy |edition=1 |location=Warsaw |pages=107–115 |chapter=The long root vowels in the Slavic verbs of the type běžą, sěką, zěją |access-date=2023-12-24 |editor-last2=Boryś |editor-first2=Wiesław |url-access=subscription}}

== Anatolian languages ==

{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1981 |title=Hittite Etymologies I (1–3) |journal=Linguistique Balkanique |language= |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=29–30 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1982 |title=Two Etymologies |journal=Linguistique Balkanique |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=81–82 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1982 |title=Hittite Etymologies II (4–8) |journal=Linguistique Balkanique |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=21–26 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1980 |title=On the Distinction between Indo-European H2 and H3 in Hittite |journal=Linguistique Balkanique |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=75–82 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1982 |title=Notes on Hittite and Luwian Grammar |journal=Linguistique Balkanique |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=21–38 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1983 |title=Zum hethitischen a -Lokativ |trans-title=To the Hittite from -Lokativ |journal=Linguistique Balkanique |language=German |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=81 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1984 |title=Etymologies |journal=Linguistique Balkanique |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=63–65 |issn=0324-1653}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1988 |title=Luwian za-/zi- 'this' |journal=Linguistique Balkanique |volume=31 |issue=1–2 |pages=85–86 |issn=0324-1653}}

== Greek language ==

{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1988 |title=Greek ρώμη, ρῶσις and Sanskrit sāra |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40266810 |journal=Glotta. Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache |volume=66 |issue=1–2 |pages=124–125 |jstor=40266810 |issn=0017-1298 }}

== Miscellanea ==

{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1985 |title=Этимологические заметки |trans-title=Etymological Notes |journal=Этимология |language=Ru |pages=148–151}}
{{Cite journal |last=Rikov |first=Georgi T. |date=1988 |title=Zur Entstehung der hethitischen hi-Konjugation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yDCBSQAACAAJ&q=Rikov |journal=Šulmu: Papers on the Ancient Near East Presented at International Conference of Socialist Countries (Prague, Sept 30–Oct 3, 1986) |language=German |pages=319–327}}

References

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