Professional Background - Freie Universität Berlin

Professional Background
Dr. Phil. Gülschen Sahatova
Date of Birth: 1969
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Positions Held
Since May 2009
Assistent Professor at the Institute of Turcology, Freie Universität Berlin.
2007 - 2009
Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, University of
Cyprus, Nicosia, South Cyprus.
1993 – 2007
Lectureships at the Institute of Turcology, Freie Universität Berlin;
Scientific Officer at the Department of Turcology, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen;
Department of Language und Cultural Science of Central Asia, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität zu Bonn; at the Department of German Language, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne; at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Maghtymguly University,
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
Educational Background
2003
PhD at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität zu Bonn;
Special fields: The Linguistics and Cultural Sciences of Central Asia / Turcology.
1987 -1993
Maghtymguly University, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan; Department of Foreign Languages;
Degree: Philologist of Foreign Language and Literature (German / English)
Research and Teaching Interests
Languages, literatures, cultures and history of Turkic people, morphology, syntax, typology, contrastive linguistic.
Social Activities / Miscellaneous
Immigration Center Bonn, language courses for migrants, Public Education Center, course for illiterate people.
Languages
(Active) Turkmen, Russian, Turkish, German, English, Greek; (passive) Uzbek, Azeri etc.
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Select publications
Monograph 2005: PhD on Untersuchung abhängig komplexer Konstruktionen im Türkmenischen
mittels Translationstheorie Tesnières. [Complex constructions in Turkmen language by means of
the Translations theory by Tesnières], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Ein Wandel des Jahrhunderts: Türksprachen der ehemaligen Sowjetunion und ihre Schriften, [A
century of change: The Turkic languages of the Former Soviet Union and their script], in:
Forschung aktuell, Zeitschrift der Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Ausgabe 2/10, 2006, 22-26.
Turkmen language – Arabic script. About Turkmen in North Afghanistan, in: Johanson, Lars (Hg.).
Turkic Languages 11, 2007, p. 138-146. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
Sahatova G. & Nasilov D. Рецензия на учебник Груниной, Э. А.: “Туркменский язык“, Москва
2008, in: Вести Института Азии и Африки Московского Государственного Университета.
Выпуск 2008, № 1, стр. 114 -118. Москва.
„Динамика форм памяти в погребально-поминальном цикле у туркмен“, in: Вопросы
тюркской филологии, Выпуск VII, Материалы Дмитриевских чтений Института Азии и Африки
Московского Государственного Университета, стр. 294-302, Москва 2007. [Dynamism in
remembrance form of the Turkmen burials cycle, in: Asia-Africa-Institute of The State University of
Moscow.]
(In print): „Verbalnomina im Türkmenischen und ihre syntaktischen Funktionen“ Beitrag zur 6.
Internationalen Turkologenkonferenz in Frankfurt/Main,
in: Johanson, Lars (Hg.). Turkic
Languages, xx-xx, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. [Turkmen Verbal nouns and syntax function”,
the 6th International Turkic Science Conference in Frankfurt/Main, Germany].
(In print): Turkmen Literature in exile. Texts of memory, in: Anthology of the “Deutscher Orientalistentag 2007”, Freiburg, Germany.
(In print) Travel essays with strange and own images, in: Anthology of the “Deutscher Orientalistentag 2007”, Freiburg, Germany.
(In print) Turkmen epic, in: “Encyclopaedia of fairytale”, Ranke K., Berlin: [de Gruyter] expected
2008.
Articles for the Literature Encyclopaedias
(In print): Articles about Turkmen and Kazakh literatures, in: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, Germany,
New edition, expected 2009: Turkmen literature: Berdy Kerbabaev, “Der entscheidende Schritt”
[The decisive Stepp]. Kazakh literature: Olzas Sulejmenov. “АЗиЯ“, Kazakh literature: Beyimbet
Majlin. Kazakh literature: Abisch Kekilbabaev
Coming up:
Konverben im Türkischen und im Türkmenischen. Ein Vergleich anhand der Koran –
Übersetzungen.
Greek and Turkish by Comparison. Syntax” (together with Eftihios Gabriel, University of Cyprus.
Subordination in Turkic languages (Habilitation Project of my own).