Andrej Kibrik (russian: Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Ки́брик; born June 18, 1963) is 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. Lingu ...

, the director of the Institute of Linguistics of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

(since 2017), and professor at the Philological Faculty of the

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. Member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

since 2013. Kibrik's main research interests lie in the fields of

cognitive linguistics Cognitive linguistics is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from cognitive science, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and linguistics. Models and theoretical accounts of cognitive linguistics are con ...

discourse analysis Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of written, vocal, or sign language use, or any significant semiotic event. The objects of discourse Analysis (discourse, writing, conversation, communicative event) ...

semantics Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and comput ...

grammar In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, a field that includes doma ...

functional linguistics Functional linguistics is an approach to the study of language characterized by taking systematically into account the speaker's and the hearer's side, and the communicative needs of the speaker and of the given language community. Linguistic fun ...

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 ...

areal linguistics Geolinguistics has been identified by some as being a branch of linguistics and by others as being an offshoot of language geography which is further defined in terms of being a branch of human geography. When seen as a branch of linguistics, geolin ...

language documentation Language documentation (also: documentary linguistics) is a subfield of linguistics which aims to describe the grammar and use of human languages. It aims to provide a comprehensive record of the linguistic practices characteristic of a given spee ...

. He has worked on

Athabaskan languages Athabaskan (also spelled ''Athabascan'', ''Athapaskan'' or ''Athapascan'', and also known as Dene) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three areal language groups: Northern, Pacific C ...

Caucasian languages The Caucasian languages comprise a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains, which lie between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Linguistic comparison allows t ...

, and

Turkic languages The Turkic languages are a language family of over 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia ( Siberia), and Western Asia. The Turki ...

, among others.

Life

Kibrik was born 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 ...

. Both of his parents, Alexander Kibrik and Antonina Koval, were linguists. He graduated from the Department of theoretical and applied linguistics of the Philological Faculty of the Moscow State University in 1984 (his academic supervisor was Sandro Kodzasov). During his studies at the university, he took part in several linguistic expeditions organized by the Department, in particular to

Dagestan Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North Ca ...

Tuva Tuva (; russian: Тува́) or Tyva ( tyv, Тыва), officially the Republic of Tuva (russian: Респу́блика Тыва́, r=Respublika Tyva, p=rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə tɨˈva; tyv, Тыва Республика, translit=Tyva Respublika ...

Svaneti Svaneti or Svanetia (Suania in ancient sources; ka, სვანეთი ) is a historic province in the northwestern part of Georgia. It is inhabited by the Svans, an ethnic subgroup of Georgians. Geography Situated on the southern slop ...

, Abkhazia . In 1988, Kibrik obtained his Candidate Degree at the Institute of Linguistics of the

Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 ...

(his supervisor was

Viktoria Yartseva Viktoriya Nikolayevna Yartseva (Викто́рия Никола́евна Я́рцева, 1906–1999) was a Russian linguist and director of the Linguistics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1971 to 1977. She specialized in Engli ...

). Since then he started working at the Institute as a

research fellow A research fellow is an academic research position at a university or a similar research institution, usually for academic staff or faculty members. A research fellow may act either as an independent investigator or under the supervision of a pr ...

and later became the head of the group working on the encyclopaedic series ''Languages of the World''. He is now the head of the Typology and Areal linguistics Department of the Institute. Since 1995, Kibrik has taught at the Philological faculty of the

. Since 2011, he is the head of the Center of cognitive studies at the Philological faculty. In 2003, Kibrik obtained his habilitation, writing ''Discourse analysis in a cognitive perspective''. In 2017, he was elected the director of the Institute of Linguistics.

Family

* Father — Alexander Kibrik, linguist * Mother — Antonina Koval, linguist ** Sister — Nina Kibrik, painter ** Wife — Mira Bergelson, linguist

Research

Kibrik's research interests are rather broad: he is a specialist in the fields of

typology Typology is the study of types or the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics. Typology is the act of finding, counting and classification facts with the help of eyes, other senses and logic. Ty ...

, syntax and

. Among his major publications there are also works on

, on multimodal approaches to studying spoken language, and on

sign language Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign l ...

s. Studies carried out by Kibrik are multidisciplinary and are performed in close interaction with psychologists and neurophysiologists. He is one of the principal researchers of the ''Night Dream Stories'' project, in which the corpus of stories produced by healthy children was compared to those told by children with neurotic disorders, the results serving the basis for the methodology of psycholinguistic diagnostics. Since 1991, Kibrik has been engaged in fieldwork on Indian languages of North America and is currently working on a grammar of the

Upper Kuskokwim language The Upper Kuskokwim language (also called Kolchan or Goltsan or Dinak'i) is an Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené language family. It is spoken by the Upper Kuskokwim people in the Upper Kuskokwim River villages of Nikolai, Telida, and McGr ...

, one of the critically endangered

. He is also involved in research on a Russian dialect of

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S. ...

. Kibrik has acted as a supervisor of numerous master and doctoral dissertations on the

Russian sign language Russian Sign Language (RSL) is the sign language used by the Deaf community in Russia and possibly Ukraine, Belarus and Tajikistan. It belongs to the French Sign Language family. RSL is a natural language with a grammar that differs from spok ...

. He also proposed to include the Russian sign language into the official Russian

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

questionnaire, which afterwards led to official recognition of the Russian sign language by the Russian government. Kibrik is member of the

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) is an international organization founded in 1981 devoted to the study of the indigenous languages of North, Central, and South America. SSILA has an annual winter meeti ...

, Association for Linguistic Typology,

Societas Linguistica Europaea The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) is a Europe-focused professional society for linguists. It was founded in 1966 to advance linguistics, the scientific study of human language. The SLE has over 1,000 individual members and welcomes linguists o ...

, Society of Cognitive Science and other associations. He is also member of the editorial boards of a number of scientific journals like '' Studies in Language'', ''

Cognitive Linguistics Cognitive linguistics is an interdisciplinary branch of linguistics, combining knowledge and research from cognitive science, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and linguistics. Models and theoretical accounts of cognitive linguistics are con ...

'', '' Frontiers in Cognition'', among others.wife king ptolemy "lago"

Major works

* Mira B. Bergelson, Andrej A. Kibrik, Wayne Leman, Marina Raskladkina. 2017. Dictionary of Ninilchik Russian: 2017 version. Anchorage: Minuteman Press.
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* Andrej A. Kibrik. 2012. Toward a typology of verb lexical systems: A case study in Northern Athabaskan. Linguistics 50.3, 495-532. * Andrej A. Kibrik. 2012. What's in the head of head-marking languages? In: Pirkko Suihkonen, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev (eds.), Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A Crosslinguistic Typology. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 229-258. * Andrej A. Kibrik. 2011. ''Reference in discourse''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 651 pp.Review: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/509963 * Mira B. Bergelson, Andrej A. Kibrik, Wayne Leman. 2011. ''Ninilchik Russian'': The first language of

Ninilchik, Alaska Ninilchik (russian: Нинильчик) ( Dena'ina: ''Niqnalchint'') is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 883, up from 772 in 2000. It is considered an Alaska ...

. Lulu Press. Preprint edition. 179 pp. * Andrej A. Kibrik. 2011. Cognitive discourse analysis: local discourse structure. In: Marcin Grygiel and Laura A. Janda (eds.) Slavic Linguistics in a Cognitive Framework. Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang Publishing Company, 273-304. * Andrej A. Kibrik and Vera I. Podlesskaya (eds.). 2009. ''Rasskazy o snovidenijax: korpusnoe issledovanie ustnogo russkogo diskursa'' ight Dream Stories: A corpus study of spoken Russian discourse Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskix kul’tur. 736 pp.

References

External links

Official web-page
at the Institute of Linguistics website
Official web-page
at the

website
Lectures and publications at “PostNauka.ru”
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