Igor Mel'čuk
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Igor Aleksandrovič Mel'čuk, sometimes ''Melchuk'' (russian: Игорь Александрович Мельчук; uk, Ігор Олександрович Мельчук; born 1932), is a Soviet and Canadian linguist, a retired professor at the Department of Linguistics and Translation,
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Biography

He graduated from the Moscow State University's Philological department and worked from 1956 till 1976 for the Institute of Linguistics in
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. He is known as one of the developers of
Meaning–text theory Meaning–text theory (MTT) is a theoretical linguistic framework, first put forward in Moscow by Aleksandr Žolkovskij and Igor Mel’čuk, for the construction of models of natural language. The theory provides a large and elaborate basis for ...
with the seminal book published in 1974. He is also the author of '' Cours de morphologie générale'' in 5 volumes. After making statements in support of Soviet dissidents
Andrey Sinyavsky Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (russian: Андре́й Дона́тович Синя́вский; 8 October 1925 – 25 February 1997) was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident known as a defendant in the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial in 1965. Sinyavs ...
and
Yuli Daniel Yuli Markovich Daniel ( rus, Ю́лий Ма́ркович Даниэ́ль, p=ˈjʉlʲɪj ˈmarkəvʲɪtɕ dənʲɪˈelʲ, a=Yuliy Markovich Daniel'.ru.vorb.oga; 15 November 1925 — 30 December 1988) was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident ...
he was fired from the Institute, and subsequently emigrated from the
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in 1976. Since 1977 he has lived and worked in
Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by to ...
. Melchuk is
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Works, 1984–2007

* Co-authors : Arbatchewsky-Jumarie, N., Elnitsky, L., Iordanskaja, L. et Lessard, A., ''Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain : Recherches lexico-sémantiques'' I, Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1984. 172 pp. * Co-authors : Zholkovsky, A., ''Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary of Modern Russian'', Vienna: Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 1984. 992 pp. * ''Поверхностный синтаксис русских числовых выражений — La syntaxe de surface d’expressions numériques du russe'', Vienne: Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 1985. 510 pp. * Co-authors : Pertsov, N.V., ''Surface Syntax of English. A Formal Model within the Meaning-Text Framework'', Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1987. 526 pp. *
Dependency Syntax : Theory and Practice
', Albany, N.Y.: The SUNY Press, 1988. 428 pp. * Co-authors : Arbatchewsky-Jumarie, N., Dagenais, L., Elnitsky, L., Iordanskaja, L., Lefebvre, M.-N., et Mantha, S., ''Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain. Recherches lexico-sémantiques'' II, Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1988. 332 pp. * Co-authors : Arbatchewsky-Jumarie, N., Iordanskaja, L. et Mantha, S., ''Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain. Recherches lexico-sémantiques'' III, Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1992, 323 pp. * ''Cours de morphologie générale, vol. 1: Introduction + Le mot''. Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal — Paris: CNRS Éditions, 1993. 412 pp. * ''Cours de morphologie générale, vol. 2: Significations morphologiques''. Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal — Paris: CNRS Éditions, 1994. 458 pp. * Co-authors : A. Clas, A. Polguère. ''Introduction à la lexicologie explicative et combinatoire'', Bruxelles : Duculot, 1995, 256 pp. * ''The Russian Language in the Meaning-Text Perspective''. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach/ Škola "Jazyki russkoj kul´tury": Vienne/Moscou, 1995. 682 pp. * ''Cours de morphologie générale, vol. 3 : Moyens morphologiques. Syntactiques morphologiques''. Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal — Paris: CNRS Éditions, 1996. 326 pp. * ''Cours de morphologie générale, vol. 4 : Signes morphologiques''. Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal — Paris: CNRS Éditions, 1997, 488 pp. * ''Vers une linguistique Sens-Texte. Leçon inaugurale''. Paris : Collège de France. 1997. 78 pp. * ''Курс общей морфологии. Том I. Введение. Часть первая: Слово''. Москва: Языки русской культуры — Вена : Wiener Slawistischer Almanach. 1997. 401 сс. * ''Курс общей морфологии. Том II. Часть вторая: морфологические значения''. Москва: Языки русской культуры — Вена : Wiener Slawistischer Almanach. 1998. 543 сс. * Co-authors : Arbatchewsky-Jumarie, N., Iordanskaja, L., Mantha, S. et Polguère, A. ''Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain. Recherches lexico-sémantiques'' IV, Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1999. 347 pp. * ''Курс общей морфологии. Том III. Часть третья: морфологические средства; Часть четвёртая: морфологические синтактики''. Москва: Языки русской культуры — Вена : Wiener Slawistischer Almanach. 2000. 367 сс. * ''Cours de morphologie générale, vol. 5 : Modèles morphologiques''. Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal — Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2000. 492 pp. * ''Курс общей морфологии. Том IV. Часть пятая: морфологические знаки''. Москва: Языки славянской культуры — Вена: Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 2001. 580 сс. * ''Communicative Organization in Natural Language. The Semantic-Communicative Structure of Sentences''. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2001. 393 pp. * ''Курс общей морфологии. Том V. Часть шестая: морфологические модели. Часть седьмая: Принципы морфологического2 описания''. Москва: Языки славянских культур — Вена: Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 2006. 542 ss. * ''Aspects of the Theory of Morphology''. Berlin—New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006. 615 pp. * Co-authors : Л. Иорданская, ''Смысл и сочетаемость в словаре = Le sens et la cooccurrence dans le dictionnaire''. Москва: Языки славянских культур, 2007. 665 сс.


References

*Elie Feuerwerker & Igor A. Mel'cuk. "Prison culturelle". Idées, ''Le Monde'', 27 juin 1984, p. 2.


External links

*http://www.olst.umontreal.ca/melcuk/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Melchuk, Igor 1932 births Living people Linguists from Canada Linguists from Russia Jewish linguists Soviet emigrants to Canada Université de Montréal faculty Canadian people of Russian descent Russian translation scholars Canadian translation scholars Russian Jews Russian people of Ukrainian descent