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Born: June 18, 1963, Moscow. 
Citizenship: Russia. 

Employment

• 1988 - present: Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences; current title: Director, Head of the Department of Typology and Areal Linguistics
• 1995 - present: lecturing at  Moscow State University, current title: Professor, Head of the Center for Cognitive Studies

Education

• 1984 - 1988:  Institute of Linguistics, Academy of  Sciences; Ph.D. (Candidate of science) earned in April 1988 
• 1979 - 1984:  Moscow State University, Philological  Faculty, Department of Linguistics; M.A. earned in June 1984 

Theses

• 1984, M.A. Thesis: Povtornaja nominacija: tipy i mexanizmy  (Repeated mention: types and mechanisms). MGU.
• 1988, Ph.D. dissertation: Tipologija sredstv oformlenija  anaforicheskix svjazej. (A typology of anaphoric means).  Institut Jazykoznanija AN SSSR.
• 2003, Doctor of Science (Dr.habil.) dissertation: Analiz diskursa v kognitivnoj perspektive (Discourse analysis in a cognitive perspective). Institut Jazykoznanija RAN. [pdf]

Visiting positions

• 1991-92: IREX visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara.
• 1992: IREX visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson.
• 1996-97: Fulbright visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon, Eugene.
• 1997: Fulbright visiting scholar, Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
• 2000-01: Humboldt scholar, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.2001
• 2001: visiting scholar, Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
• 2006-07: Humboldt scholar, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

Membership in professional organizations

• European Academy (Academia Europaea), elected in 2013
• Interregional Association for Cognitive Studies, since 2006 (2012–2014: President, 2014–2016: Past President)
• Societas Linguistica Europaea, since 2012
• Cognitive Science Society, since 2013
• Member of the European committee of the Cognitive Science Society, since 2013

Membership in dissertation councils, editorial boards, program committees, foundation boards, reviewing

• Institute of Linguistics RAS, Dissertation Council on Theory of language
• Institute of Linguistics RAS, Dissertation Council on languages of Russia
• Studies in Language (Amsterdam, John Benjamins), 1996 – 2004
• Cognitive Linguistics (Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter), 1997 – 2004.
• Typological Studies in Language (Amsterdam, John Benjamins), 1996 –
• Jazyki mira
• Kognitivnye issledovanija (Cognitive Studies; Moscow, Institute of Psychology RAS), 2006 –
• Journal of Slavic Linguistics
• Russkaja Rech (Russian Speech; Institute of Russian Language RAS)
• Russian Journal on Cognitive Science, 2014 –
• ШАГИ/Steps
• Journal of sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic research
• EL Publishing
• Reviewing for journals Voprosy jazykoznanija, Journal of Pragmatics, etc.
• Russian Basic Research Foundation, member of expert board on linguistics, 2010 – 2017
• Russian Foundation for the Humanities, expert, 2006 – 2017
• Russian Science Foundation, expert, 2014 – 
• Foundation of the Higher School of Economics, 2013 – 
• Foundation for basic linguistic research, board member, 2013 – 
• Reviewing for foundations: National Science Foundation (USA), Swiss Science Foundation, Academy of Finland, etc.

Grants and awards

• 1995: Fulbright program: 10-month scholarship for visit in the USA in 1996-97.
• 1999-2001: Research Support Scheme: Cognitive organization of narrative discourse in children with neuroses.
• 2000, 2006: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Scholarship for research stay in Germany in 2000-2001, 2006- 2007.
• 2001-2003: Russian Foundation for the Humanities: ”The Athabaskan linguistic type as a problem in theoretical and typological linguistics”.
• 2001: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: A research grant for field work on Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan.
• 2003-2005: Russian Foundation for Basic Research: “Referential choice in discourse: a neural networks approach”.
• 2005-2007: Russian Foundation for the Humanities: “The discourse bases of grammatical, lexical, and non-verbal linguistic phenomena”.
• 2006-2008: Russian Foundation for Basic Research: “Cognitive mechanisms of discourse segmentation”.
• 2008-2010: Russian Foundation for the Humanities: “A multi-modal approach to the study of grammar and discourse”.
• 2008-2010: Russian Science Support Foundation: Grant in the “Doctor of Science” category
• 2009-2011: Russian Foundation for Basic Research: “Modeling multi-factorial processes: A corpus study of reference”
• 2011-2013: Russian Foundation for the Humanities: “Cognitive bases of linguistic structures and discourse phenomena: Theory and practice”
• 2012–2014: RAS Presidium Program “Corpus linguistics”, project “Night Dream Stories and other corpora of oral speech”
• 2014-2016: Russian Foundation for Basic Research, “Discourse production: methods of observation, experiment, and modeling”
• 2014: Russian Foundation for the Humanities, “Documenting disappearing languages and dialects of Alaska: linguistics and sociocultural analysis ”
• 2014–2018: Russian Science Foundation, “Language as is: Russian multimodal discourse”.

Areas of research

Language and cognition, spoken and written discourse, multimodality, linguistic diversity, linguistic typology, areal linguistics, theoretical functional linguistics, grammar, semantics, field linguistics, sign languages, American Indian linguistics, Athabaskan languages, Turkic languages, Caucasian languages, West African languages, Russian grammar

Publications

In all – over 350 publications in various areas of linguistics.

Major book-size publications:

1. Andrej A. Kibrik. Monograph “Reference in discourse”. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 650 pp.
2. Rasskazy o snovidenijax: korpusnoe issledovanie ustnogo russkogo diskursa. [Night Dream Stories: A corpus study of spoken Russian discourse.] Ed. by Andrej A. Kibrik and Vera I. Podlesskaya. Moscow: JaSL, 2009. 736 pp.
3. Discourse studies in cognitive linguistics. Proceedings of the 5th International cognitive linguistics conference. Ed. by Karen van Hoek, Andrej A. Kibrik, and Leo Noordman. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1999.
4. Fundamental'nye napravlenija sovremennoj amerikanskoj lingvistiki [Fundamental trends in modern American linguistics]. Ed. by Andrej A. Kibrik, Irina M. Kobozeva, and Irina A. Sekerina. Moscow: Izd-vo MGU, 1997. 455 pp.
5. Kognitivnye issledovanija. [Cognitive Studies]. Issue 5. Ed. by A.A.Kibrik, T.V.Chernigovskaya, A.V. Dubasova. Moscow: IP RAN, 2012. 296 pp.
6. Mul’timodal’naja kommuikacija: teoreticheskie i empiricheskie aspekty. [Multimodal communication: Theoretica and empirical aspects]. Ed. by O.V.Fedorova and A.A.Kibrik. Moscow: Buki Vedi, 2014. 174 pp.
7. Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Science, June 2014, Kaliningrad. Ed. by Yu. I. Alexandrov, K. V. Anokhin, B. M. Velichkovsky, A. A. Kibrik (chairman), A. K. Krylov, Ju. V. Mazurova, O. V. Fedoroca, T. V. Chernigovskaya. Kaliningrad, 2014. 752 pp.
8. Jazyk i mysl’: sovremennaja kognitivnaja lingvistika (Language and thought: Contemporary cognitive linguistics). Ed. by A.A.Kibrik, A.D.Koshelev, A.V.Kravchenko, Ju.V.Mazurova, O.V.Fedorova. Moscow: JaSK, 2015. 848 pp.
9. Co-edited volumes of the series “Languages of the World”:
   • 1997 Jazyki mira: Tjurkskie jazyki (Languages of the world: Turkic languages). Moscow: Indrik. 542 pp. 
   • 1997 Jazyki mira: Paleoaziatskie jazyki (Languages of the world: Paleoasiatic languages). Moscow: Indrik. 230 pp. 
   • 2004 Jazyki mira: Indoarijskie jazyki drevnego i srednego periodov. (Languages of the World: Indo-Aryan languages of the old and middle periods.) Moscow: Academia. 160 pp.
   • 2005 Jazyki mira: Slavjanskie jazyki. (Languages of the World: Slavic languages.) Moscow: Academia. 656 pp.
   • 2006 Jazyki mira: Baltijskie jazyki. (Languages of the World: Baltic languages.) Moscow: Academia. 224 pp.
   • 2010 Jazyki mira: Drevnie reliktovye jazyki Perednej Azii. (Languages of the World: Ancient relict languages of the Near East.) Moscow: Academia. 240 pp.
   • 2011. Jazyki mira: Novye indoarijskie jazyki. (Languages of the World: New Indo-Aryan languages.) Moscow: Academia. 896 pp.
   • 2013. Jazyki mira: Dravidijskie jazyki. (Languages of the World: Dravidian languages.) Moscow: Academia. 582 pp.
   • 2013. Jazyki mira: Reliktovye indoevropejskie jazyki Perednej i Central’noj Azii. (Languages of the World: Relict Indo-European languages of Western and Central Asia.) Moscow: Academia. 582 pp.
   • 2017. Mande
   • 2017. Slavic
   • 2018. Paleoeuropean

Patents

State patent #2253365 “A method of psycholinguistic diagnostics of neurotic disorders” of June 10, 2005 (Jointly with V.L.Golubev, V.I.Podlesskaya, E.A.Korabelnikova, and A.O.Litvinenko).