Philologist Dmitry Likhachyov with a text in Old East Slavic on the background of the Russian Literature Institute (Russian postage stamp). This list of Russian linguists and philologists includes notable linguists from the Russian Federation , the Soviet Union , the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia.
A Vasily Abaev , prominent researcher of Iranian languages Solomon Adlivankin , Soviet linguist, the founder of Perm derivatology school, took part in compiling Akchim dialect dictionaryVladimir Admoni , linguist, literary critic, translator and poet, worked on the theory of grammar, historic and modern German syntax, defended Joseph Brodsky in court in 1964Alexander Afanasyev , leading Russian folklorist , recorded and published over 600 Russian fairy tales , by far the largest folktale collection by any one man in the worldBaudouin de Courtenay
B Ivan Baudouin de Courtenay , co-inventor of the concept of phoneme and the systematic treatment of alternations , pioneer of synchronic analysis and mathematical linguistics Victor Bayda , linguist specializing in Celtic and Germanic languagesAlexander Belskiy , Soviet specialist in literary criticism , famous Anglicist , founder of philological faculty at Perm State University , founder of Foreign literature Department at PSUOtto von Böhtlingk , prominent Indologist and Sanskrit grammarian Fyodor Buslaev , philologist and folklorist, representative of the Mythological school of comparative literature Yakov Brandt , Sinologist
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E Tamara Erofeyeva , leader of school «Sociolinguistic study of urban language»,[1] head of Socio- and Psycholinguistics school[2] at Department of General and Slavonic linguistics[3] at Perm State National Research University, Honorary Figure of Russian Higher Education
F Elena Fedorova , scholar of antiquity; doctor of philology, specialising in classical philology and cultural history
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K Pyotr Kafarov , prominent sinologist , developed the cyrillization of Chinese , discovered and published many invaluable manuscripts, including The Secret History of the Mongols Lomonosov Alexander Kibrik , eminent typologist and caucasologist Andrej Kibrik , specialist in linguistic typology , cognitive linguistics , discourse analysis , and Athabaskan languages Valeriya Kirpichenko , linguist, translator, specialist in Arabic literature, professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Knorozov , linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer, deciphered the ancient Maya script , proposed a decipherment for the Indus script Rimma Komina , Soviet and Russian specialist in literary criticism , the Dean of philological faculty at Perm State University (1977–1982)Andrey Korsakov , eminent linguist and language philosopher , specialised in the Germanic languages and English grammar , suggested philosophic reasoning for the parts of speech system and philosophic understanding of syntactic categories Margarita Kozhina , Soviet and Russian linguist, specialist in stylistics, the founder of Perm school of functional stylistics Nikolay Krushevsky , co-inventor of the concept of phoneme and the systematic treatment of alternations
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M Sergey Malov , turkologist, classified the Turkic alphabets , deciphered ancient Orkhon script Nicholas Marr , put forth a pseudo-linguistic Japhetic theory on the origin of language Igor Melchuk , structural linguist, author of Meaning-Text Theory Anatoly Moskvin , philologist and linguist, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home.Leonid Murzin , Soviet and Russian linguist, the head of Perm derivatology school; he founded the Institute of dynamic linguisticsVladimir Müller , linguist and lexicographer, author of popular English–Russian dictionary
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P Ilia Peiros , a long-range comparative linguist known for his work on Austric languages Stephan of Perm , 14th century missionary, converted Komi Permyaks to Christianity and invented the Old Permic script Yevgeny Polivanov , linguist, orientalist and polyglot , developed the cyrillization of Japanese Nicholas Poppe , prominent Altaic languages researcherVladimir Propp , formalist scholar, major researcher of folk tales and mythology Tatyana Proskuryakova , Mayanist scholarand archaeologist, deciphered the ancient Maya script
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S Franz Anton Schiefner , prominent tibetologist , Finnic and Caucasus languages researcherIsaac Jacob Schmidt , first researcher of Mongolian Aleksey Shakhmatov , founder of textology , prepared major 20th century reforms of Russian orthography , pioneered the systematic research of Old Russian and medieval Russian literature Lev Shcherba , phonetist and phonologist , author of the glokaya kuzdra phraseFyodor Shcherbatskoy , Indologist , initiated the scholarly study of Buddhist philosophy in the WestVitaly Shevoroshkin , a long-range comparative linguistsIvan Snegiryov , early collector of Russian proverbs and researcher of lubok printsIzmail Sreznevsky , leading 19th century Slavist , published Codex Zographensis , Codex Marianus and Kiev Fragments Georgiy Starostin , son of Sergei Starostin and long-range comparative linguistic researcherSergei Starostin , prominent supporter of Altaic languages theory, proposed Dené–Caucasian languages macrofamily , reconstructed a number of Eurasian proto-languages
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V Matrena Vakhrusheva , linguist and philologist, wrote the first Mansi-Russian dictionary and a pioneer in the development of Mansi literature and orthography for the Mansi language Max Vasmer , leading Indo-European , Finno-Ugric and Turkic etymologist , author of the 'Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language [ru] Viktor Vinogradov , linguist and philologist, founder of the Russian Language Institute Alexander Vostokov , coined the term Old Church Slavonic , discovered Ostromir Gospel (the most ancient East Slavic book), pioneer researcher of the Russian grammar
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References ^ Социолингвистическое изучение городской речи // Пермский государственный национальный исследовательский университет ^ Ерофеева Е. В. Пермская школа социолингвистики: итоги работы и перспективы развития // Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология. Вып. 2. 2104. С. 160–171. ^ Perm State University. Department of General and Slavonic linguistics. Socio- and Psycholinguistics school