Fahima Mirgaliеvna Khisamova,
Kazan Federal University,
18 Kremlyovskaya Str., Kazan, 420008, Russia,
hifami@yandex.ru
The article presents a brief review of the development stages and main achievements of Tatar linguistics in the bigger context of general Turkic studies.
The author emphasizes the most significant areas of the research done in Dialectal studies and History of the Tatar language in two aspects: History of the literary language and Historical Grammar specifying structural and grammatical changes in the language.
In the field of Dialectology the author stresses the importance of fundamental work named “The Dialectological Atlas of the Tatar language”.
The author also characterizes the main research schools in Tatar linguistics.
Key words: Proto-Turkic language, reconstruction, historical grammar, dialectological atlas, research schools.