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Vladimir Plungian | |
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Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Плунгя́н | |
 Plungian in 2015 | |
| Born | (1960-09-13)September 13, 1960 (age 65) |
| Nationality | Russian |
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| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | Linguistic typology |
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Vladimir Plungian (Russian:Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Плунгя́н; born September 13, 1960) is a Russianlinguist, specialist inlinguistic typology andtheory of grammar,morphology,corpus linguistics,African studies,poetics.
Vladimir Plungian is a Doctor of Philology (1998),full member of theRussian Academy of Sciences (2016, corresponding member since 2009[1]), member ofAcademia Europaea (2017). He has worked at theInstitute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and theRussian Language Institute. He is also Professor at theMoscow State University.
Son of Alexander Plungian (1924—2019), air engineer and interpreter, a friend ofYuri Knorozov andValentin Berestov.
In 1982, Vladimir Plungian graduated from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the Philological faculty of theMoscow State University. During his student years, he took part in a number of linguistic field trips organized by the department, in particular those which studiesTabasaran,Andi,Chamalal languages ofDagestan.[2] The topic of his diploma wasEvaluation of probability as a type of modal meaning (supervisor:Alexander Kibrik).
Plungian acquired hisCandidate Degree in 1987 at theInstitute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the topic of his work beingMorphological derivation and inflection in the verbal system of an agglutinative language (based onDogon data) (supervisor:Natalia Okhotina). In 1998, he obtained his Doctoral Degree at theMoscow State University, with the thesisGrammatical categories, their counterparts and substitutes.
Plungian is currently the head of the Typology department at theInstitute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2004) and the head of the Department of corpus linguistics and linguistic poetics of theRussian Language Institute (since 2006). Since 2013, he is also the deputy director of theRussian Language Institute. He teaches at the Department of theoretical and applied linguistics of the Philological faculty of theMoscow State University (since 1989), and was the head of the department in 2013–2017. He has also taught at various other universities in Moscow, including theRussian State University for the Humanities. He has worked in various research centres in Europe (Belgium, Germany, Spain, Norway, France, Sweden etc.) and conducted fieldwork in Africa (Mali),Dagestan,Armenia, northern parts of Russia, in the Volga region and Pamir.
He is the main editor of the journalVoprosy Jazykoznanija ("Issues in Linguistics") since 2016,[3] and member of editorial boards of various other journals in Russia. He is a member of the internationalAssociation for Linguistic Typology, of theSociety of Slavic Linguistics and theSocietas Linguistica Europaea. In 2017, he was elected as a member of theAcademia Europaea.
Vladimir Plungian is married to fellow linguistEkaterina Rakhilina.[4] Their elder daughterNadezhda Plungian is an art expert and feminist activist.
The main areas of Vladimir Plungian's research interests are morphology, theory of grammar and grammatical typology (first of all, typology of verbal categories). He has also published on grammatical and lexicalsemantics,lexicography,linguistic fieldwork andpoetics. He is a specialist in African languages, and worked at the Department of African languages of the Institute of Linguistics for more than 20 years. Since 1984, he has systematically studiedDogon languages inMali, and took part in an international field trip to Mali (1992). He published a series of articles and two monographs onDogon languages (he was the first person to describe one of the largest languages of this family, Tommo-so). Apart from African languages, he conducted research on various languages of the Caucasus, Oceania, Finno-Ugric languages of Russia, etc. Many of his publications are dedicated to Russian grammar and lexicon.
In the field of grammatical typology, Vladimir Plungian made contributions to the classification of grammatical categories in the languages of the world, described several new verbal categories, proposed a new classification ofmodal (together with J. van der Auwera),aspectual andevidential meanings. According toScopus,[5] his most cited journal papers areModality’s semantic map (1998, with Johan van der Auwera),The place of evidentiality within the universal grammatical space (2001) andTowards a typology of discontinuous past marking (2006, also with van der Auwera).
Since 1990s, Plungian has paid attention to the development of corpus methods in linguistic research. He is one of the creators of theRussian National Corpus and of theEast Armenian National Corpus, he also founded various projects on creating corpora for other languages of Russia and beyond (e.g. Beserman Udmurt and Yiddish). He is one of the leaders of the project on corpus grammar of the modern Russian languages since 2015.
Since late 1980s, Plungian has taught linguistic subjects at universities. His main theoretical course for the students of the Department of theoretical and applied linguistics at the Moscow State University is "General morphology". On the basis of this course, he wrote a textbookGeneral morphology: introduction (1st ed., 2000), which remains his most cited book according toGoogle Scholar.[6] Apart from this course, he has taught various other courses, such as "Russian morphology", "Languages of the world and linguistic areas", "Introduction to language theory".
