Academic Ancestry

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Svetlana Burlak

Russian linguistborn 1969

Wikidata names Sergey Starostin as doctoral advisor and names Alexander Kibrik and Sergey Starostin as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 3 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Alexander Kibrik

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Sergey Starostin

The line above and below1 step

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Education and career2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.