Alexander Kibrik (
Russian: ''Александр Евгеньевич Кибрик''; March 26, 1939 – 31 October, 2012)
[Obituary]
written by Peter Arkadiev on ''Diversity Linguistics Comment''. was a Russian
linguist
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...
, doctor of philology and the head of the department of theoretical and applied linguistics of the Philological Faculty of
Moscow State University.
Life
Kibrik was born in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
, the son of the painter
Evgeniy Kibrik. He became the head of the department of theoretical and applied linguistics of the Philological Faculty of the
Moscow State University in 1992. He worked in the fields of
linguistic typology
Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features to allow their comparison. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity and the co ...
,
Northeast Caucasian languages and
theoretical linguistics
Theoretical linguistics is a term in linguistics which, like the related term general linguistics, can be understood in different ways. Both can be taken as a reference to theory of language, or the branch of linguistics which inquires into the n ...
. Kibrik was especially well known for his longtime fieldwork and field teaching, as well as grammar-editing, on the languages of the
Caucasus
The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historically ...
including the
Archi, the
Khinalug, the
Godoberi, the
Tsakhur, the
Bagvalal, the
Russian and
Alutor languages.
Death
Kibrik died in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
at the age of 73 and was buried at
Novodevichy cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery ( rus, Новоде́вичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist ...
, near his father. His wife was Russian linguist
Antonina Koval Antonina may refer to:
Geography
* Antonina, Paraná, a municipality in Brazil
* Antonina, Bełchatów County, in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland
* Antonina, Pajęczno County, in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland
* Antonina, Poddębice County ...
. He had two children: the linguist
Andrej Kibrik and the painter
Nina Kibrik.
References
External links
Kibrik's profile at the Russian Academy of Sciences website
Kibrik's profile at the British Academy websiteKibrik's personal pageand
Memorial page at the OTiPL website
at the
LINGUIST List by
Barbara Hall Partee
Barbara Hall Partee (born June 23, 1940) is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass).
Biography
Born in Englewood, New Jersey, Partee grew up in the Baltimore ...
Aleksandr Kibrik. How I became a Linguist(''Linguist of the Day'' at the
LINGUIST List)
Kibrik Family website
Linguists from Russia
Linguists from the Soviet Union
Russian people of Jewish descent
20th-century linguists
Syntacticians
Moscow State University alumni
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Writers from Saint Petersburg
1939 births
2012 deaths
Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
Caucasologists
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