TheInstitute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian:Институт языкознания Российской академии наук) is a structural unit in the Language and Literature Section of the History and Philology Department of theRussian Academy of Sciences. This institute is one of the major centers in the field oflinguistic research in Russia, and is also a center for theMoscow School of Comparative Linguistics.
Researchers of the Institute of Linguistics are involved in the study of fundamental linguistic problems as well as in applied linguistic studies of the languages of Russia, theCommonwealth of Independent States and foreign countries too. These include Romance, Germanic, Celtic, Iranian, Turkic, Mongolian, Finno-Ugriс languages and languages of the Caucasus region, Tropical Africa and South-Eastern Asia.
Attention is paid to the problems oflinguistic typology andcomparative and historical linguistics. Much attention is given to the research ofpsycholinguistic andsociolinguistic problems (language situation,language policy,language conflicts) in different regions of the world.[1]
The Institute of Linguistics of the USSR Academy of Sciences was created in 1950 inMoscow after the so-called "discussion of linguistic issues" during the campaign againstMarrism (Japhetic theory). The institute was organized on the basis of theInstitute of the Russian Language of the Academy of Sciences, established in 1944, as a "counterweight" to the Marr Institute of Language and Mind inLeningrad, the leading center of theoretical language studies in the USSR of that period.[2] The latter in 1952 was reorganized as the Leningrad branch of the Moscow Institute of Linguistics (this situation continued until 1991, when the Leningrad branch was transformed into an independentInstitute for Linguistic Studies of theRussian Academy of Sciences).
On June 19, 2012,Vladimir Alpatov became the director of the Institute of Linguistics, as elected by general meeting of all the researchers of the institute.
On May 25, 2017,Andrej Kibrik was elected the director of the Institute of Linguistics by the general meeting of the researchers.
The institute is headed by:
The structure of the scientific divisions of the Institute includes one research center, 8 research departments, a department for international relations, and a department for scientific personnel training. In 2002, a department of foreign languages has been included in the structure of the institute. In 2012, thepsycholinguistics sector was transformed into the department of psycholinguistics comprising the general psycholinguistics sector and the ethnopsycholinguistics sector.
The institute's subdivisions:
The institute's directions of research include:[3]
Researchers of the institute are involved in the preparation of a multi-volume encyclopaedia,Languages of the World, 14 volumes of which have already been published.[4]
Joint international research is conducted in cooperation with scientific institutions of France, the US, Canada, Spain, Germany, Vietnam, and other countries.
Scientists of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have created theLinguistic Encyclopedic Dictionary, the first edition of which was published in 1990 with Viktoria Yartseva as the chief editor. The second edition was published in 2002.[5]
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