Igor Aleksandrovič Mel'čuk is a retired professor at the Department of linguistics and translation, Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

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He graduated from the Moscow State University's Philological department. Since 1956 he has worked for the Institute of the Science of Language in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

. Since 1974, he has been one of the developers of Meaning-Text Theory

Meaning-Text Theory

Meaning–text theory 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...

. He is the author of Cours de morphologie générale in 5 volumes.

After making statements in support of Soviet dissidents Andrey Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel

Yuli Daniel

Yuli Markovich Daniel was a Soviet dissident writer, poet, translator and political prisoner.He frequently wrote under the pseudonyms Nikolay Arzhak and Yu. Petrov .-Early life and World War II:...

  he was fired from the Institute, and subsequently emigrated from the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 in 1976. Since 1977 he has lived and worked in Canada

Canada

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Works for last 25 years

• 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 Dictionnary 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.

External links

• http://www.olst.umontreal.ca/melcuk/