Head of Section of Typology
Employed at the Institute of Linguistics since 1982.
Vladimir Plungian is interested in the typology of grammatical categories, general morphology, corpus linguistics, poetics. He has worked with various data from Russian (and other Slavic), Uralic, Iranian, Caucasian, African and Oceanic languages.
PhD (1987), Dr.habil. (1998), Prof. (2005), full member of Russian Academy of Sciences (2016; corresponding member since 2009). Vladimir Plungian has published more than 260 academic papers (among them 8 monographs and textbooks). He is the author of the first Russian systematic Introduction to general morphology (2000) and grammatical semantics (2011).
Vladimir Plungian graduated from the Department of Structural and Applied Linguistics of the Moscow State Lomonosov University in 1982.
His 1987's Ph.D. thesis is Derivation and inflection in the verbal system of an agglutinative language (case study of Dogon). His 1998's Doctoral thesis is Grammatical categories, their relatives and substitutes.
Since 1982 Vladimir Plungian has been working at the Institute of Linguistics (first in the Department of African languages, since 2005 in the Department of Linguistic Typology). Since 2006, he has also been working at Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (as head of the Department of corpus linguistics and linguistic poetics, since 2013 also as Deputy Director).
Since 1989 Vladimir Plungian has been teaching at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Moscow State Lomonosov University. From 2013 to 2017, he headed the same Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. At different times, he also taught at other universities in Moscow and worked in research centers in Belgium, France, Germany, Norway, Spain and Sweden. He supervised over two dozen PhD theses.
Vladimir Plungian is one of the founding leaders of corpus linguistics in Russia; he is a principal investigator within several important projects in corpus linguistics, such as Russian National Corpus, Eastern Armenian National Corpus and some others.
Since 2016 he is the editor-in-chief of the journal «Voprosy jazykoznanija» [Topics in the study of language].
He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europaea) and prize winner of «Prosvetitel’» [Enlightener] award in the field of popular scientific literature (2011).
Scientific Profiles
Science Index
Selected publications
Monographs:
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Glagol v aggljutinativnom jazyke (na materiale dogon). [Derivation and inflection in the verbal system of an agglutinative language (case study of Dogon)]. Moscow, RAS, 1992.
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Putevoditel’ po diskursivnym slovam russkogo jazyka.[A guide to the discursive words of the Russian language]. Moscow, 1993 (co-authors Anatolij Baranov, Ekaterina Raxilina).
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Dogon. München: LINCOM Europa, 1995; 2nd ed. 2007. – (Languages of the World / Materials; 64).
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Počemu jazyki takie raznye? [Why do languages differ?]. Moscow, 1996, AST-Press (reedition), 2018.
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Vox Camenae – Golos muzy: Antologija latinskoj liriki s kommentarijami i russkimi perevodami. [Vox Camenae – The Voice of the Muse: Anthology of Latin Lyrics with Commentary and Russian Translations]. Moscow, 1998.
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Občšaja morfologija: vvedenie v problematiku. [General morphology: introduction to the problematic] Moscow, Èditorial URSS, 2000; 5 edition, 2016.
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Vvedenie v grammatičeskuju semantiku: Grammatičeskie značenija i grammatičeskie sistemy jazykov mira. [Introduction to grammatical semantics: grammatical meanings and grammatical systems of languages], M.: RSUH, 2011.
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Poèzija: Učebnik [Poetry: Textbook]. Compliers – Natal’ja Azarova, Kirill Korčagin, Dmitrij Kuz’min. M.: O.G.I., 2016 (co-authors – Natal’ja Azarova, Svetlana Bočaver, Kirill Korčagin, Dmitrij Kuz’min, Boris Orexov, Evgenija Suslova).
Articles:
– general morphology and grammatical semantics
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Die Stellung der Morphologie im Sprachsystem // G. Booij et al. (Hrsg.). Morphologie: ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbildung. B.: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000, 22-34.
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Agglutination and flection // M. Haspelmath et al. (eds.). Language typology and language universals: an international handbook. B.: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001, vol. 1, 669-678.
– typology of grammatical categories
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Modality’s semantic map // Linguistic typology, 1998, 2.1, 79-124 (co-author Jost Vander Auvera).
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A typology of phasal meanings // W. Abraham, L. Kulikov (eds.). Tense-aspect, transitivity and causativity: Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1999, 311-321.
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The place of evidentiality within the universal grammatical space // Journal of pragmatics, 2001, 33.3, 349-357.
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Irrealis and modality in Russian and in typological perspective // Hansen, B.; Karlík, P. (eds.). Modality in Slavonic languages: New perspectives. München: Sagner, 2005, 187-198.
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Towards a typology of discontinuous past marking // Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (STUF), Berlin, 2006, 59.4, 317-349 (co-author Jost Vander Auvera).
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K voprosu ob akcional’noj klassifikacii predikatov: akcional’no svjazannye situacii // L. Scholze & B. Wiemer (Hrsg.). Von Zuständen, Dynamik und Veränderung bei Pygmäen und Giganten. Festschrift für Walter Breu zu seinem 60. Geburtstag. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 2009, 57-74.
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Types of verbal evidentiality marking: An overview // G. Diewald & E. Smirnova (eds.). Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages. B.: Mouton de Gruyter, 2010, 15-58.
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Mood in Morphology // Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press, 2020; DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.549 (co-author D. Mordashova).
– semantical typology
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Time and speed: Where do speed adjectives come from? // Russian Linguistics, 2013, 37.3, 347–359 (co-author Ekaterina Raxilina).
– African studies
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Resultative and apparent evidential in Dogon // V.P. Nedjalkov (ed.). Typology of resultative constructions. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1988, 481-493.
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Existe-t-il des traits mandé dans la typologie du dogon? // Mandenkan (Paris), 1991, 22.2, 31-38.
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Relations actancielles en dogon // Actances (Paris), 1993, N 7, 227-238.
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Three causatives in Dogon and the overlapping of causative and passive markers // B. Comrie et al. (eds.). Causatives and Transitivity. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1993, 391-396.
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Vers une description sociolinguistique du pays dogon: attitudes linguistiques et problèmes de standardisation // G. Dumestre (dir.). Stratégies communicatives au Mali: langues régionales, bambara, français. P.: Didier, 1994, 163-195 (co-author I. Tembiné).
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Agentive nouns in Dogon: neither derivation nor inflection? // W.U. Dressler et al. (eds.). Morphological analysis in comparison. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2000, 179-190.
– Caucasian languages
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Plurality of situations in Chamalal // V.S. Xrakovskij (ed.). Typology of iterative constructions. München: LINCOM, 1997, 119-123.
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Notes on Eastern Armenian verbal paradigms: “temporal mobility” and perfective stems // D. Van Olmen, T. Mortelmans, F. Brisard (eds.). Aspects of linguistic variation: Studies in honor of Johan van der Auwera. B.: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018, 233-245.
– Russian language
semantics of functional words:
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O pokazateljax čužoj reči i nedostovernosti v russkom jazyke: mol, jakoby i drugie // B. Wiemer & V. A. Plungjan (Hrsg.). Lexikalische Evidenzialitäts-Marker in slavischen Sprachen. (Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 72). München: Sagner, 2008, 285-311.
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Time as secondary to space: Russian pod ‘under’ and iz-pod ‘from-under’ in temporal constructions // Russian Linguistics 37:3, 293–316 (co-authors Julija Kuznecova и Ekaterina Raxilina).
grammatical semantics:
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Russian morphophonemics in a nutshell: the verb vstat ‘stand up’ // Poljarnyj vestnik (Tromsø), 2011, 14, 22-44 (co-author A. Endresen).
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K spisku dvuvidovyx glagolov v russkom jazyke: istorija past’ // R. Benacchio, A. Muro, S. Slavkova (eds.). The role of prefixes in the formation of aspectuality: Issues of grammaticalization. Firenze: Firenze U. Press, 2017, 167-182.
syntactics and structure:
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Sirkonstanty v tolkovanii? // Z. Saloni (red.). Metody formalne w opisie języków słowiańskich. Białystok: W-wo UW, 1990, 201-210 (co-author Ekaterina Raxilina).
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Grammaticalization and coercion: the case of Russian bez konca // An. Makarova, St. Dickey, D. Divjak (eds.). Each venture a new beginning: Studies in honour of Laura A. Janda. Bloomington (IN): Slavica, 2017, 299-312 (co-author Ekaterina Raxilina).
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‘I say’: Some aspects of 19th century Russian syntax // Russian Linguistics, 2018, 42.2, 123-136 (co-author Ekaterina Raxilina).
lexical semantics:
- «Tretij lišnij»: la sémantique de l’adjectif lišnij à la lumière de ses équivalents français // O. Artyushkina et al. (éds.). Études de linguistique slave – mélanges offerts à Robert Roudet. Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Midi, 2020, 161-176 (co-authors I. Kor Chahine и Ekaterina Raxilina).
– theory of poetry
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Mne s každym utrom protivnej zaučennyj, mёrtvyj stix: k nekoto¬rym osobennostjam toničeskogo stixa M. Kuzmina // L. Panova & S. Pratt (eds.). The Many Facets of Mikhail Kuzmin: A Miscellany. Bloomington (IN): Slavica, 2011, 43-57.
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Two requiems, or the English dolnik on the Russian soil // Barry P. Scherr, James Bailey, Evgeny V. Kazartsev (eds.). Formal methods in poetics: a collection of scholarly works dedicated to the memory of professor M. A. Krasnoperova. Lüdenscheid: RAM-Verlag, 2011, 173-181.