Chief Researcher, Section of Typology
Employed at the Institute of Linguistics since 1985.
In 1981, she graduated from the Division of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the Faculty of Philology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. From 1981 to 1984, she was a post-graduate student at the Institute of Linguistics in the Russian Academy of Sciences (the section of Romance languages). In 1985, she presented her PhD thesis "Funkcional'naja semantika predikatov vnutrennego sostojanija (na materiale francuzskogo jazyka)" [Functional semantics of inner state predicates (based on the material of the French language)] with Elena Volf as a Research Supervisor. Since 1985, Zalizniak is an employee at the Institute of Linguistics in the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1986, she is a member of the task group "Logical analysis of the language" (needed by Nina Arutiunova). Since 2001, she is a part of the task group on grammar theory (with Vladimir Plungian as a head). Throughout the years, she has taught and delivered lectures in a number of universities in France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Australia.
In 2003, Anna Zalizniak presented her Dr.habil. thesis "Mnogoznačnost' v jazyke i sposoby eё predstavlenija" [Polysemy in the language and the ways of its manifestation]. She is an author of more than 200 scientific works, including 9 monographs. She is the head of the "Database of Semantic Shifts in languages of the world" project.
Zalizniak's research interests include synchronic and diachronic lexical semantics, semantic typology, Russian aspectology, Russian language, Romance and Germanic languages, morphological derivation, discourse language units, linguistic databases, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics.
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Selected publications
She is an author of more than 200 scientific works, including 9 monographs.
Monographs
- Zalizniak, Anna A. Issledovanija po semantike predikatov vnutrennego sostojanija [Investigations in the Semantics of Inner State Predicates]. Slavistische Beiträge, B. 298. München: Otto Sagner Verlag, 1992. – ISBN 3-87690-541-9
- Zalizniak, Anna A., Shmelev, Aleksei. Lekcii po russkoj aspektologii [Lectures on Russian Aspectology]. Slavistische Beiträge, B. 353, München: Otto Sagner Verlag, 1997. – ISBN 3-87690-3
- Zalizniak, Anna A., Shmelev, Aleksei. Vvedenie v russkuju aspektologiju [Introduction to Russian Aspectology]. — Moscow, Jazyki russkoj kul'tury, 2000. — (Studia philologica). — ISBN 5-7859-0170-6
- Zalizniak, Anna A., Levontina, Irina, Shmelev, Aleksei. Ključevye idei russkoj jazykovoj kartiny [Key ideas of Russian linguistic model of the world]. — Moscow, Jazyki russkoj kul'tury, 2005. — (Language. Semiotics. Culture). — ISBN 5-94457-104-7
- Zalizniak, Anna A. Mnogoznačnost' v jazyke i sposoby eё predstavlenija [Polysemy in the language and the ways of its manifestation]. — Moscow, Jazyki slavjanskix kul'tur, 2006. — P. 672 — (Studia philologica). — ISBN 5-9551-0114-4
- Zalizniak, Anna A., Levontina, Irina, Shmelev, Aleksei. Konstanty i peremennye russkoj jazykovoj kartiny mira [Constants and variables of the Russian linguistic model of the world]. Moscow, Jazyki slavjanskix kul'tur, 2012. — P. 691 — (Language. Semiotics. Culture) – ISBN 978-5-95510494-2
- Zalizniak, Anna A. Russkaja semantika v tipologičeskoj perspektive [Russian semantics in a typological perspective]. — P. 635 — (Studia philologica). Moscow, Jazyki slavjanskix kul'tur, 2013. – ISBN 978-5-9551-2
- Zalizniak, Anna A., Mikaelian, Irina, Shmelev, Aleksei. Russkaja aspektologija: V zaščitu vidovoj pary [Russian Aspectology: In Defense of the Aspect Pair]. Moscow, Jazyki slavjanskoj kul'tury, 2015. — P. 391 — (Studia philologica) – ISBN 978-5-94457-242-4
- Zalizniak, Anna A., Shmelev, Aleksei. Issledovanija po russkoj i komparativnoj semantike [Investigations in Russian and Comparative Semantics]. Moscow, Jazyki slavjanskoj kul'tury, 2021. — (Studia philologica) (printed)
Articles
- [co-authored by Levontina, Irina] Human emotions viewed through the Russian language. // Emotions in Crosslinguistic perspective. Ed. by J.Harkins and A.Wierzbicka Berlin – N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001, pp. 291-336.
- [co-authored by Shmelev, Aleksei] Sociativity, conjoining, reciprocity, and the Latin prefix com- (Chapter 4). In: V.P. Nedjalkov (ed.). Reciprocal Constructions [TSL 71]. Vol. I. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. P. 209-229.
- A Catalogue of Semantic Shifts: towards a Typology of Semantic Derivation // From Polysemy to semantic change. Towards a Typology of Lexical Semantic Associations. Ed. by Martine Vanhove. [Studies in Language Companion series, 106] Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. P.217-232.
- Zalizniak, Anna A., Bulakh, M., Ganenkov, D., Gruntov, I., Maisak, T., Russo. M. The Catalogue of semantic shifts as a database for lexical semantic Typology // M. Koptjevskaja-Tamm, M. Vanhove (eds.) New directions in lexical typology. A special issue of Linguistics, 2012, vol. 50, № 3, P. 633 – 669.
- On the lexicographic interpretation of the meaning of a verb in its bound use // Meanings, texts, and other exciting narratives. Collection of articles in honor of Igor Melchuk' 80th anniversary. Moscow, Jazyki slavjanskoj kul'tury, 2012. С.665-671.
- Zalizniak Anna A., Sitchinava D.V., Loiseau S., Kruzhkov M., Zatsman I.M. Database of Equivalent Verbal Forms in a Russian-French Multivariant Parallel Corpus // Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI’13), Vol. I. – Las Vegas: CRSEA Press, 2013. - Pp. 101-107.
- Russian Prefixed Verbs of Motion Revisited // Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 2017, 62(1), p.1-22.
- The Catalogue of Semantic Shifts: 20 years later // Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2018, Vol. 22 (4), 770-786.
- Cognitive Mechanisms of Semantic Derivation in the Domain of Visual Perception. // CAICS 2020: I National congress on cognitive research, artificial intelligence and neuroinformatics. Moscow, October 10-16, 2020.