Yuri Derenikowitsch Apressyan

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Juri Derenikowitsch Apressjan ( Russian Ю́рий Дерени́кович Апреся́н , scientific transliteration Jurij Derenikovič Apresjan ; born February 2, 1930 in Moscow) is a Russian linguist and lexicographer .

Apressyan is a graduate of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages ​​(now Moscow State Linguistic University ), belongs to the circle of the Moscow Semantic School ( Igor Meltschuk , Alexander Scholkowski and others). a. In 1994 a visiting professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and is now head of the department for theoretical semantics at the Institute for Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

Academic work

  • Collaboration in a leading position on the machine translation system ETAP
  • essential contribution to the meaning-text model in the field of lexical semantics
  • Author of several monolingual and bilingual dictionaries (English-Russian, synonymy dictionaries, co-author of the explanatory-combinatorial dictionary (EKW) and the synonym dictionary « Novyj obʺjasnitelʹnyj slovarʹ sinonimov russkogo jazyka »)

activities

  • 1960–1972: Institute for Russian Language at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • 1972–1985: Institute "Informelektro"
  • 1985–1994: Institute for Problems of Information Transmission at the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • since 1994: Theoretical Semantics Department at the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Literature (selection)

  • Ju. D. Apresjan: Ideas and Methods of Modern Structural Linguistics . Brief outline. Munich 1971.
  • Ju. D. Apresjan: Leksičeskaja semantika . Sinonimičeskie sredstva jazyka. Moskva 1974.
  • Ju. D. Apresjan: The semantic language as a means of explaining lexical meanings . In: W. Girke, H. Jachnow (Ed.): Theoretical Linguistics in Eastern Europe . Tübingen 1976, pp. 22-48.
  • Ju. D. Apresjan (Ed.): Novyj obʺjasnitelʹnyj slovarʹ sinonimov russkogo jazyka. 2. izd., Ispr. i dop. Moskva 2004. (= Vienna Slavic Almanac, special volume 60)
  • Ju. D. Apresjan et al .: Lingvističeskoe obespečenie sistemi ĖTAP-2 . Moskva 1989.

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personal data
SURNAME Apressjan, Yuri Derenikowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Апреся́н, Ю́рий Дерени́кович (Russian); Apresjan, Jurij Derenikovič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian linguist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow