Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak, (Russian: Андре́й Анато́льевич Зализня́к) (born April 29, 1935) is a Russian linguist who specializes in the research of linguistic monuments of Old Novgorod.
Zaliznyak was born in Moscow and studied in the Moscow University before moving to the Sorbonne to further his studies with André Martinet. He was admitted into the Soviet Academy of Sciences as a Corresponding Member in 1987. Ten years later, he was elected a...
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Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak, (Russian: Андре́й Анато́льевич Зализня́к) (born April 29, 1935) is a Russian linguist who specializes in the research of linguistic monuments of Old Novgorod.
Zaliznyak was born in Moscow and studied in the Moscow University before moving to the Sorbonne to further his studies with André Martinet. He was admitted into the Soviet Academy of Sciences as a Corresponding Member in 1987. Ten years later, he was elected a full academician.
Zaliznyak's first monograph, Russian Nominal Inflection (1967), remains a definitive study in the field. Ten years later, he published a highly authoritative Russian Grammar Dictionary, which went through several reprints and provided a basis for Russian grammar software.
In 1982, Zaliznyak turned his interests towards the birch scrolls which have been unearthed in Novgorod since 1950s. He has co-edited all publications of newly-discovered birch scrolls since 1986. As the number of these ancient documents exceeded 700,...
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