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Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak

アンドレイ・アナトーリエヴィチ・ザリズニャク

Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1935-04-29 （Moscow）
Died
2017-12-24 （Moscow） age 82
Nationality
Soviet Union, Russian
Languages
Russian, English, French, Polish, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Biblical Hebrew
Residence History
Moscow → Pruzhany

Career

Occupations
linguist, historical linguist, morphologist, accentologist, dialectologist
Active Years
1952-2017
Affiliations
Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University Philological Faculty
Memberships
Full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1997), Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1987), Member of Göttingen Academy of Sciences (2001)
Influenced By
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Influenced
Anna Zaliznyak

Education

Moscow State University
Philological Faculty / Department of Romance and Germanic Languages
Degree: Doctor of Philological Sciences
Period: 1952-1958
Year of Graduation: 1958
Country: Soviet Union
Exchange student to France in 1956

Awards

Demidov Prize
1997
Organization: Demidov Prize Committee
Result: 受賞
State Prize of the Russian Federation
2007
Organization: Government of the Russian Federation
Result: 受賞
Solzhenitsyn Prize
2007
Result: 受賞
Lomonosov Gold Medal
2007
Organization: Russian Academy of Sciences
Result: 受賞
Shakhmatov Prize
2015
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Grammatical Dictionary of the Russian Language

1977 Dictionary

Standard reference for Russian inflection

Russian morphology

Old Novgorod Dialect

1995 Linguistics

Study of Old Novgorod dialect from birchbark letters

Old East Slavicenclitics

The Tale of Igor's Campaign: A Linguist's View

2004 Linguistic analysis

Linguistic proof of authenticity of The Tale of Igor's Campaign

Old Russian literaturetext authenticity

Bibliography

  • Brief Russian-French student dictionary (1961)
  • Russian Nominal Inflection (1967)
  • Grammatical Dictionary of the Russian Language (1977)
  • Old Novgorod Dialect (1995)

Translations by Author

  • Translation of André Martinet's Economy of Phonetic Changes

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Rigorous morphological analysisAlgorithmic and logical approach
Recurring Motifs
AccentologyEncliticsBirchbark letters

Health

  • Heart attack
    1984
    Affected health, later heart surgery in Sweden

Legacy

Authority on Russian morphology and Old Novgorod dialect. Proved authenticity of The Tale of Igor's Campaign. Basis for Russian NLP.

Academic Societies

  • Russian Academy of Sciences

Archives

  • Institute of Slavic Studies

In Popular Culture

  • Founder of linguistic olympiads

Quotes

  • [He] never got distracted by trifles, never wrote a single throwaway work, unnecessary paragraph, or unnecessary line.
    Source: Alexey Gippius (2017)

Trivia

  • Told by teacher he was incapable of learning languages, yet mastered many
  • Self-taught French to become exchange student to France
  • Traveled Europe by train due to old head injury
  • Deciphered birchbark letters, major contribution to archaeology