Ilya Gruntov

И. А. Грунтов

Senior Researcher, Department of Ural-Altaic Languages

PhD

Employed at the Institute of Linguistics since 2003.

Graduated from Russian State University for the Humanities, Faculty of Theory and Practice Of Linguistics, in 1999 with a degree in "Theoretical and Applied Linguistics".
Defended his PhD thesis "Reconstruction of the Proto-Altaic grammatical case" in 2002.

Teaching and educational outreach

Has served as a teacher and an instructor since 1998, in various educational facilities and programmes, among which are:

  • Higher School of Economics (Mongolian language, Turkish language)
  • Russian State University for the Humanities (Theoretical Phonology of the Mongolian language, Theoretical Grammar of the Mongolian language, Comparative Grammar of Mongolic languages, Introduction to the Altaic studies, Introduction to the Mongolic studies, Historical Grammar of the Mongolian language, Ancient Greek language)
  • Middle school programmes, classes for adults (Church Slavonic language, Old Slavonic language)
  • Berendeevy polyany Summer camp for middle and high school students (linguistics section) (2009-2019)

Fieldwork

  • 1996 – Field survey of the Crimean Tatar language (Krasnodar Krai, Taman vicinities)
  • 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019 – Folkloric and linguistic field surveys in Mongolia (Khalkha Mongol, Olot, Zakhchin, Myangad, Khamningan ethnicities).
  • 2014 – Folkloric and linguistic field survey in the Inner Mongolia region, PRC (Khamningan, Daur, Khalkha, Chahars, Barga Mongol ethnicities).
  • 2017 – Linguistic field survey in the Tibetan Prefecture of Gansu Province, PRC (Dongxiang and Bonan ethnicities).

Websites

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Selected publications

  • PhD thesis. Gruntov, I. Rekonstrukcija padežnoj sistemy praaltajskogo jazyka [Reconstruction of the Proto-Altaic grammatical case] (10.02.2020). Moscow, 2002. 227 s. Il. RGB OD, 61 03-10/314-7.
  • Gruntov, I., Mazo, O. A comparative approach to nominal morphology in Transeurasian: Case and plurality // The Oxford guide for the Transeurasian languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198804628.003.0032 Ch. 31. P. 522–553.
  • Gruntov, I., Mazo, O. Mongghul, Mangghuer and beyond: estimating the proximity // Voprosy jazykovogo rodstva [The question of linguistic proximity]. 2019, №17 / 3-4. Pp. 210–232.
  • Gruntov, I., Mazo, O., Solovyeva, A. Mongolian euphemisms and taboo. Animals and hunting // Mongolica Pragensia, Czech Republic. 2016. Vol. 9. No. 1. P. 39–58. (Published in 2018.)
  • Zalizniak, A., Bulakh, M., Ganenkov, D., Gruntov, I., Maisak, T., Russo, M. The catalogue of semantic shifts as a database for lexical semantic typology // Linguistics. 2012, vol. 50, №3. Pp. 633–669.
  • Grountov, I. Middle Mongolian dialects and Modern Mongolian languages in regard to their spatial case system // Altaica Budapestinensia MMII. Proceedings of the 45th Permanent International Altaistic Conference. Budapest, 2003.
  • Grountov, I. [Review of the book The Phonology of Mongolian, by Svantesson, J.-O., Tsendina, A., Mukhanova-Karlsson, A., Franzén, V.. Oxford University Press, New York, 2005]
  • Gruntov, I. Chinese loanwords in the Mongolic, Turkic and Tungusic languages // The Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (Vol. 1-5). Brill, 2016. ISBN: 978-90-04-18643-9.
  • Gruntov, I. “Mongolic and Slavic” // Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online / Greenberg, M. L. (Ed). Consulted online on 05 July 2020. First published online: 2020.
  • Starostin, S., Dybo, A., Mudrak, O., Gruntov, I., Glumov, V. Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages. Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2003.
  • Pjurbeev, G., Dambueva, P., Gruntov, I., Ad’jaa, O. Bol’šoj akademičeskij russko-mongol’skij slovar’ [The Great Russian-Mongolian academic dictionary]. Vol. 1. A–D. M.: Vostočnaja literatura, 2012. ISBN: 978-5-02-036481-3.
  • Pjurbeev, G., Dambueva, P., Gruntov, I., Ad’jaa, O. Bol’šoj akademičeskij russko-mongol’skij slovar’ [The Great Russian-Mongolian academic dictionary]. Vol. 2. E–U. M.: Vostočnaja literatura, 2014. ISBN 978-5-02-036560-5.
  • Pjurbeev, G., Dambueva, P., Gruntov, I., Ad’jaa, O. Bol’šoj akademičeskij russko-mongol’skij slovar’ [The Great Russian-Mongolian academic dictionary]. Vol. 3. P–S. M.: Vostočnaja literatura, 2015. ISBN 978-5-02-036587-2.