"May the transitivity be..." (to the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. V. Babaytseva)

The article contains some facts of the biography of Doctor of Philology, Professor Vera Vasilyevna Babaytseva (1925–2016) and a brief overview of her creative legacy. A list of 12 monographs on linguistic and linguistic methodological problems is given, the main ideas and concepts introduced by the scientist into the metalanguage of linguistics are outlined, the concept of synchronous transitivity and the transitivity scale as a research tool and a means of visualizing its results are discussed in the most detail. It is shown how the linguistic concept is implemented in school textbooks, which have become the basis of three educational and methodological complexes. The article describes the scientific school that was formed in the 80s of the XX century during conferences on the problems of multidimensional, transitional and syncretism in the grammar of modern Russian and the publication of collections of scientific papers. Information is given about scientific seminars in memory of Professor V. V. Babaytseva: "Transitional phenomena in language and speech" (2021), "Multidimensional units of language and speech" (2022–2025) and on the preparation of a collective monograph based on their results.