Igor Alexandrovich Meltschuk

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Igor A. Melchuk

Igor Alexandrowitsch Meltschuk ( Russian И́горь Алекса́ндрович Мельчу́к , scientific transliteration Igorʹ Aleksandrovič Melʹčuk ; born October 19, 1932 in Odessa ) is a Russian-Canadian linguist. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Montreal in the Department of Linguistics and Translation.

Meltschuk visited the Philogische Faculty of MGU . From 1956 he worked at the Institute for Linguistics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . After an open letter in support of the dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Sergei Kowaljow to the New York Times , which appeared there on January 25, 1976, Meltschuk was dismissed. As a result, he emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1976 . He has lived and worked in Canada since 1977 .

Meltschuk is the creator of the meaning-text model and author of numerous works on morphology, syntax and other areas of linguistics.

Works (selection)

  • Opyt teorii lingvističeskich modelej «Smysl ⇔ Tekst» . Moskva 1974.
  • Towards a language of linguistics . A system of formal notions for theoretical morphology. International Library for General Linguistics 44. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1982.
  • IA Melʹčuk, AK Žolkovskij, Ju. D. Apresjan et al. Tolkovo-Kombinatornyj slovarʹ sovremennogo russkogo jazyka : Opyty semantiko-sintaksičeskogo opisanija russkoj leksiki. Vienna: Wiener Slavistischer Almanach, 1984.
  • Poverchnostnyj sintaksis russkich čislovych vyraženij . Wiener Slavistischer Almanach special volume 16. Vienna 1985.
  • Course de morphologie générale (théorique et descriptive). Montreal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal / Paris: CNRS Éditions 1993–2000. ISBN 2-7606-1548-0
  • IA Mel'čuk, NV Pertsov. Surface syntax of English : A formal model within the Meaning-Text framework. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: Benjamin, 1987. ISBN 90-272-1515-4
  • IA Mel'čuk. Dependency syntax : Theory and practice. Albany, NY: SUNY, 1988. ISBN 0-88706-450-7 , ISBN 0-88706-451-5
  • Phrasemes in language and phraseology in linguistics. In: Everaert, Martin; Erik-Jan van der Linden; André Schenk et al. (eds.): Idioms: Structural and psychological perspectives 167–232. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale 1995.
  • IA Mel'čuk, A. Clas & A. Polguère. Introduction à la lexicologie explicative et combinatoire. P .: Duculot, 1995. ISBN 2-8011-1106-6
  • Lexical functions: a tool for the description of lexical relations in the lexicon. In: Wanner, Leo (ed.): Lexical functions in lexicography and natural language processing 37-102. John Benjamin, Amsterdam / Philadelphia 1996.
  • IA Mel'čuk et al. Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain. Recherches lexico-sémantiques IV, Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1999. ISBN 2-7606-1738-6
  • Levels of dependency in linguistic description: concepts and problems. In: Ágel, Vilmos et al. (eds.): Dependency and valence . Dependence and Valence. Handbooks for language and communication studies 25 / 1–2, 188–229. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 2003.
  • Actants in semantics and syntax I: Actants in semantics. Linguistics 42/1, 1-66. 2004.
  • Actants in semantics and syntax II: Actants in syntax. Linguistics 42/2, 247-291. 2004
  • Aspects of the theory of morphology . Trends in linguistics 146. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006. ISBN 3-11-017711-0 , ISBN 978-3-11-017711-4

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personal data
SURNAME Meltschuk, Igor Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мельчук, Игорь Александрович (Russian); Melʹčuk, Igorʹ Aleksandrovič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Canadian linguist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa