The Institute of Linguistics was founded in 1950 and is one of the oldest linguistic institutes in country.
Main domains of research
- language theory, linguistic typology, comparative linguistics;
- Romance, Germanic, Celtic, African, Turkic, Mongolian, Iranian, Caucasian, Finno-Ugric and Asian languages;
- grammars of endangered languages;
- areal linguistics and ethnolinguistics;
- sociolinguistics;
- psycholinguistics;
- computational linguistics;
- lexicography
- logical analysis of language;
- experimental phonetics and semantics;
- translation theory.
The management
Director, Head of the Senate
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Andrej A. Kibrik, D.Phil. |
Scientific Deputy Directors
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Andrey V. Sideltsev, D.Phil. |
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Service Deputy Director
Viktor N. Perley
Scientific Secretary
Vladimir I. Karpov, Ph.D. (send e-mail)
Departments
- Department of theoretical and applied linguistics
- Department of theoretical linguistics (send e-mail)
- Department of applied linguistics (send e-mail)
- Department of psycholinguistics
- Department of Ural-Altaic languages (see also: Ural-Altaic Studies, Scientific Journal)
- Department of Finno-Ugric languages
- Department of Caucasuan languages (e-mail: kavkaz [at] iling-ran.ru)
- Atlas Linguarum Europae (ALE) Group
- Department of Indo-European languages
- Department of Iranian languages
- Department of Germanic languages (e-mail: german [at] iling-ran.ru)
- Department of Celtic and Anatolian languages
- Department of Romance languages
- Department of sociolinguistics (e-mail: socioling [at] mail.ru)
- Department of African languages (e-mail: africa [at] iling-ran.ru)
- Department of typology and areal linguistics
- Department of typology (send e-mail)
- Department of areal linguistics (send e-mail)
- Department of comparative linguistics
- Depatment of East Asian and Southeast Asian languages
- Department of experimental speech research
- Teaching department of foreign languages
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Mailing address and phone numbers
Mailing address: 1 bld. 1 Bolshoi Kislovsky lane, 125009 Moscow, Russian Federation
Phone: +7 495 690-35-85
Fax: +7 495 690-05-28