Research

Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Poetics at the Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences);
Head of the Section of Typology at the Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences);
Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Chief Editor of the journal "Voprosy Jazykoznanija" ("Topics in the Study of Language").

Main research interests: general morphology, typology of grammatical categories, corpus linguistics, field linguistics; verse theory and metrics.

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Biography

Since 2018 — participant and co-organizer of linguistic fieldwork in Pamir.

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; member of Academia Europaea.

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Academic pathway

1977–1982

Specialist Degree in Structural and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

1983–1987

Postgraduate Studies, Institute of Linguistics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR

1987

Defense of Candidate Dissertation "Inflection and derivation in an agglutinative verbal system (case study of Dogon)" at the Institute of Linguistics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR

1998

Defense of Doctoral Dissertation "Grammatical categories, their analogues and substitutes" at Lomonosov Moscow State University