Born: 1963, Moscow
Citizenship:
Russia
Education and degrees
1979 – 1984: Department of Structural and Applied Linguistics, Philological Faculty, Moscow State University; M.A. earned in June 1984.
1984 – 1988: Institute of Linguistics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR; Ph.D. (Kandidat nauk) earned in April 1988.
2003: Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences [link]; Habilitation (Doktor nauk) earned in June 2003.
Theses
1984, M.A. thesis: Povtornaja nominacija: tipy i mexanizmy (Repeated mention: types and mechanisms). Moscow State University.133 p..
1988, Ph.D. dissertation: Tipologija sredstv oformlenija anaforicheskix svjazej. (A typology of anaphoric means). Institut Jazykoznanija AN SSSR. 365 pp..
2003, Habilitation report: Analiz diskursa v kognitivnoj perspektive (Discourse analysis in a cognitive perspective) [pdf]. Institute of Linguistics RAN. 90 pp..
Employment
1988 – present: Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences [link]. Current position: Leading researcher, Head of the Working Group “Jazyki mira” (“Languages of the World”) [link].
1995 – present: Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics [link], Philological Faculty, Moscow State University. Current position: Professor.
Visiting positions
1991-92: visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara.
1992: visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson.
1996-97: Fulbright visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene.
1997: Fulbright visiting scholar, Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
2000-01: Humboldt scholar, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
2006-07: Humboldt scholar, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
Grants and awards
1995. Fulbright program: 10-month scholarship for visit in the USA in 1996-97.
1999-2001: Research Support Scheme: Cognitive organization of narrative discourse in children with neuroses.
2000, 2006: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Scholarship for research stay in Germany in 2000-2001, 2006- 2007.
2001-2003: Russian Foundation for the Humanities: ”The Athabaskan linguistic type as a problem in theoretical and typological linguistics”.
2001: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: A research grant for field work on Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan.
2003-2005: Russian Foundation for Basic Research: “Referential choice in discourse: a neural networks approach”.
2005-2007: Russian Foundation for the Humanities: “The discourse bases of grammatical, lexical, and non-verbal linguistic phenomena”.
2006-2008: Russian Foundation for Basic Research: “Cognitive mechanisms of discourse segmentation”.
2010: Russian Foundation for the Humanities: “A multi-modal approach to the study of grammar and discourse”.
For a full list of grants and awards click here.
Membership in professional organizations
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (since 1989).
Cognitive Lingustics Association (since 1997).
Association for Linguistic Typology (since 1997).
Russian Association for Cognitive Studies (since 2006); member of the Association’s board.
International Arctic Social Sciences Association (since 2008).
Service on boards of journals and book series
Studies in Language (Amsterdam, John Benjamins), 1996 – 2003.
Cognitive Linguistics (Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter), 1997 – 2004.
Typological Studies in Language (Amsterdam, John Benjamins), 1996 –
Kognitivnye issledovanija (Cognitive Studies; Moscow, Instutute of Psychology RAS), 2006 –
Other professional experience and service
1990: Organization of the Soviet conference on linguistic typology. Institute of Linguistics, AN SSSR.
2004: Vice chairman of the Program committee of the First International Conference on Cognitive Science. Kazan State University.
2006: Member of the Program committee of the Second International Conference on Cognitive Science. St Petersburg State University.
2008: Vice chairman of the Program committee of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Science. Moscow.
1993, 1995, 2004: Serving as an opponent at Ph.D. dissertation defenses: V.S. Pestov "Agglutination and verb morphology in Quechua"; I.G.Ruzin, "The modes of perception (vision, hearing, smell, touch)"; A.Ju. Urmanchieva, “Expression of reality/irreality in the verbal systems of African languages”.
Reviewing for academic publishers: John Benjamins (Amsterdam), Academia (Moscow).
Reviewing conference papers, journal articles, and other scholarly texts on multiple occasions.
2002 – : Popularization of the advances in linguistics and cognitive science on Russian TV.
Significant language research experience
Navajo, and Athabaskan in general, 1984 - present.
Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan, 1996 - present.
Pulaar (Atlantic), 1986 - present.
Tuva (Turkic), 1986 - 1996.
Godoberi and other Daghestanian languages, 1980 - 1996.
Svan (Kartvelian), 1989 - 1992.
Abkhaz (Abkhaz-Adyghe), 1987 - 1989.
Patents
State patent #2253365 “A method of psycholinguistic diagnostics of neurotic disorders” of June 10, 2005 (Jointly with V.L.Golubev, V.I.Podlesskaya, E.A.Korabelnikova, and A.O.Litvinenko).
