Chief Researcher, Section of Germanic Languages
Chief researcher at Russian Language Institute and Institute of Linguistics of RAS, affiliate professor at Stockholm University (department of Slavic studies).
More information on the Russian Language Institute website or on the Stockholm University website.
Graduated from Leipzig University in 1978, PhD thesis «Phraseologisch gebundene lexikalische Elemente der deutschen Gegenwartssprache», Dr.habil. thesis «Fundamentals of structural and typological analysis of the phraseology in modern Germanic languages: based on German, English, and Dutch data».
Specialist in the field of lexical semantics, lexicography, theory of phraseology and corpus linguistics. Author of numerous articles and monographs related to topical issues of modern phraseology and contrastive linguistics. The author and supervisor of projects on compiling dictionaries and text corpora of different types.
Participant of international projects, including the ones at Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Expert at research foundations, member of the editorial board in a number of journals.
Was awarded an honorary degree at Sorbonne and Stockholm University.
Scientific Profiles
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Selected publications
Monographs
- Kognitive Aspekte der Idiom-Semantik. Studien zum Thesaurus deutscher Idiome, (= Eurogermanistik, 8). Tübingen: Narr, 1995 (2. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage: Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2016).
- Figurative language: cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives. Amsterdam etc.: Elsevier, 2005. (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, 13). (with E. Piirainen).
- Aspekty teorii frazeologii (v soavtorstve c A.N.Baranovym) [Aspects of phraseology theory (co-authored with Anatoly Baranov)]. Мoscow, 2008.
- Osnovy frazeologii (v soavtorstve c A.N.Baranovym) [Basics of phraseology (co-authored with Anatoly Baranov)]. Moscow, 2013.
- Besedy o nemeckom slove [Conversations about the German word]. Moscow, 2013.
Dictionaries
- English-Russian dictionary of linguistics and semiotics. Second revised and enlarged edition / Ed. by Baranov and Dobrovol'skij. Moscow, 2001.
- Novyj bol'šoj nemecko-russkij slovar'. V 3-x t.: okolo 500 000 leksičeskix edinic [A new big German-Russian dictionary. In 3 volumes: 500,000 lexical units.]. Moscow, 2008–2010.
- Akademičeskij slovar' russkoj frazeologii. 3-e izd., pererab. i dop. [Academic dictionary of Russian phraseology. Third revised and enlarged edition] Moscow, 2020.
- Tezaurus russkix idiom: semantičeskie gruppy i konteksty 2-e izd., ispr. i dop [Russian idioms thesaurus: semantic groups and contexts. Second revised and enlarged edition]. Moscow, 2018.