Leonid Kulikov
- Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow:Faculty of Humanities / Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
- Leonid Kulikov has been at HSE University since 2020.
Education and Degrees
- 2001
PhD
Leiden University - 1989
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
Higher Attestation Commission - 1986
Degree in Structural and Applied Linguistics
Lomonosov Moscow State University
* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Editorial board membership
2018: Member of the Editorial Board, Вестник РГГУ. Серия «Филологические науки. Языкознание»/ Московский лингвистический журнал.
2017: Editor-in-chief, Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics.
2015: Member of the Editorial Board, Archivio Glottologico Italiano.
2010: Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Historical Linguistics.
2010: Member of the Editorial Board, Lingua Posnaniensis.
2014–2017: Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics.
Courses (2020/2021)
Introduction to Vedic Hymnography (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Publications21
- Chapter Kulikov L. The Κένταυρος controversy revisited: An old etymological puzzle in a comparative-mythological perspective, in: Synchrony and diachrony of ancient Greek: Language, linguistics and philology: Essays in honor of Emilio Crespo. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2021. doi P. 163-181. doi
- Article Stroński K., Kulikov L. Typology and diachrony of converbs in Indo-Aryan // Diachronica. 2021. Vol. 38. No. 3. P. 457-501. doi
- Article Куликов Л. И. Индоир. gandharvá- и его (не)индоевропейские родственники: сравнительно-мифологические заметки // Родной язык: лингвистический журнал. 2021. № 1. С. 256-277. doi
- Article Keidan A., Kulikov L., Lavidas N. Morphosyntactic isoglosses in Indo-European: An introduction // Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. 2020. Vol. 56. No. 3. P. 373-377. doi
- Article Barðdal J., Kulikov L., Pooth R., Kerkhof P. A. Oblique anticausatives: a morphosyntactic isogloss in Indo-European // Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. 2020. Vol. 56. No. 3. P. 413-449. doi
- Chapter Lavidas N., Kulikov L. Voice, transitivity and tense/aspect: Directionality of change in Indo-European (Evidence from Greek and Vedic), in: Reconstructing Syntax. Leiden : Brill, 2020. doi Ch. 7. P. 289-313. doi
- Chapter Куликов Л. И. Активные и медиальные формы в послеведийском санскрите: новые функции исчезающей морфологической категории // В кн.: ВАПросы языкознания: Мегасборник наностатей. Сб. ст. к юбилею В. А. Плунгяна / Под общ. ред.: А. А. Кибрик, К. Семенова, Д. В. Сичинава, С. Г. Татевосов, А. Ю. Урманчиева. М. : Буки Веди, 2020. С. 121-127.
- Article Johnson C. A., Kerkhof P. A., Kulikov L., Le Mair E., Barðdal J. Argument structure, conceptual metaphor and semantic change: How to succeed in Indo-European without really trying // Diachronica. 2019. Vol. 36. No. 4. P. 463-508. doi
- Article Kulikov L., Manevskaia I. Review of: Robert Binnick, The past tenses of the Mongolian verb: Meaning and use. Leiden: Brill, 2012 // TURKIC LANGUAGES. 2019. Vol. 23. No. 1. P. 135-139.
- Article Pooth R., Kerkhof P. A., Kulikov L., Barðdal J. The origin of non-canonical case marking of subjects in Proto-Indo-European: Accusative, ergative, or semantic alignment // Indogermanischen Forschungen. 2019. Vol. 124. P. 245-264. doi
- Article Куликов Л. И. Заметки о следах кастовой системы на Мальдивах // Этнография. 2019. Т. 4 (6). С. 75-89. doi
- Article Kulikov L. Review of: Nalini Balbir, Le Sanskrit. Chennevières-sur-Marne, 2013 // Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. 2018. Vol. 5. No. 2. P. 241-243. doi
- Article Kulikov L. Review of: Thomas Lindner, 200 Jahre Indogermanistik. Salzburg, Wien: Tandem, 2016, 2018 // Historiographia Linguistica. 2018. Vol. 45. No. 3. P. 397-402. doi
- Article Kulikov L. The first woman Yamī, her origin and her status in Indo-Iranian mythology: Demigoddess or half-human? (Evidence from R̥gveda 10.10, Iranian parallels and Greek relatives) // Studia Ceranea, Польша. 2018. Vol. 8. P. 43-75. doi
- Article Dom S., Kulikov L., Bostoen K. Valency-decreasing derivations and quasi-middles in Bantu: A typological perspective // Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 2018. Vol. 36. No. 3. P. 165-173. doi
- Chapter Kulikov L. Vedic āhanás- and its relatives/cognates within and outside Indo-Iranian, in: Farnah: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Sasha Lubotsky. NY : Beech Stave Press, 2018. P. 153-161.
- Chapter Куликов Л. И. Яма, Ями и ведийская частица ghā̆: К интерпретации РВ 10.10.10 // В кн.: Mitrasampradānam. СПб. : МАЭ РАН, 2018. С. 47-59.
- Chapter Kulikov L. Indo-Aryan, in: The Indo-European Languages. L. : Routledge, 2017. doi Ch. 6. P. 214-262.
- Chapter Kulikov L. Indo-Iranian, in: The Indo-European Languages. L. : Routledge, 2017. doi Ch. 5. P. 205-213.
- Article Dom S., Kulikov L., Bostoen K. The middle as a voice category in Bantu: Setting the stage for further research // Lingua Posnaniensis. 2016. Vol. 58. No. 2. P. 129-149. doi
- Book Kulikov L. The Vedic -ya-presents: Passives and intransitivity in Old Indo-Aryan. Amsterdam : Rodopi Publishers, 2012.
Conferences
- 2021Семинар Отдела сравнительно-исторического изучения индоевропейских языков и ареальных исследований Института лингвистических исследований РАН (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Κένταυρος и его (не)индоевропейские родственники: индоиранский gandharvá- и другие мифологические параллели
- Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, seduta di novembre (Милан). Presentation: Labile verbs and the evolution of transitivity types in Indo-European
- I международная научная конференция Дубянские чтения (Москва). Presentation: Деграмматикализация залога и выбор активных/медиальных форм в классическом санскрите (на материале санскритских -ya-презенсов)
- 2020The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE53) (Bucharest). Presentation: Typology of preverbs and transitivity in diachrony: Evidence from Greek and beyond (with Nikolaos Lavidas)
- Workshop “Towards a diachronic typology of middle voice”, the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE53) (Bucharest). Presentation: The origin of the middle voice and the rise of labile syntax in Bribri (with Sara Pacchiarotti)
- Typology of morphosyntactic parameters” (TMP-10) (Москва). Presentation: Noun incorporation vs. nominal composition in a diachronic typological perspective: Evidence from Indo-European and beyond (key note lecture)
- Приглашенные доклады (ERASMUS exchange) (Gothenburg). Presentation: Middle voice in Bantu and voice typology
- Приглашенные доклады (ERASMUS exchange) (Gothenburg). Presentation: A glimpse into the history of Soviet linguistics: Stalin and the puzzle of the “Kursk-Oryol dialect”
- Приглашенные доклады (ERASMUS exchange) (Gothenburg). Presentation: Vedic ghā̆ and Slavic же [že]: emphatic, causal or neither? (grammaticalization paths of some discourse particles in Indo-European)
- 2019The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE52) (Leipzig). Presentation: The origin of non-canonical case marking of subjects in Proto-Indo-European: accusative, ergative, or semantic alignment (with Peter Alexander Kerkhof, Roland Pooth and Jóhanna Barðdal)
- Workshop “A comprehensive perspective on reflexive constructions”, the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE52) (Leipzig). Presentation: Bantu reflexives: A comparative case-study of the Kikongo language cluster (with Sebastian Dom)
- The 7th International Vedic Workshop (Dubrovnik). Presentation: The Vedic particle ghā̆ and the primordial incest of Yama vs. Yamī: Linguistic and comparative-mythological evidence from Indo-Iranian and beyond
- Приглашенная лекция (Paris). Presentation: Le mythe indo-iranien de l’inceste primordial de Yamī et Yama et ses racines (non-)indo-européennes: de la sexualité démoniaque vers la sexualité humaine?
- Приглашенные лекции (Вена). Presentation: Из истории советской лингвистики: Сталин и загадка «курско-орловского диалекта»
- Приглашенные лекции (Вена). Presentation: The Indo-Iranian myth of the primordial incest of Yamī and Yama and its (non-)Indo-European origins
- 2018Joint Colloquium in Indo-European Linguistics “Variation and contact in the ancient Indo-European languages: between Linguistics and Philology” (Pisa). Presentation: Continuous vector space models for variation and change in sparse, richly annotated Indo-European argument structure data (with Jóhanna Barðdal, Gard B. Jenset, Laura Bruno, Esther Le Mair, Peter Alexander Kerkhof, Svetlana Kleyner, Roland Pooth)
- Linguistic and cultural semantics in the Slavic languages (Ghent). Presentation: О сталинской концепции происхождения русского языка на базе курско-орловского диалекта
- XXXIX Зографские чтения («Проблемы интерпретации традиционного индийского текста») (Петербург). Presentation: От демонической к человеческой сексуальности? Индо-иранский миф о первобытном инцесте Ями и Ямы и его индоевропейские корни
- The 9th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL-9) (Helsinki). Presentation: Greek χρόνος and its origin: An old etymological puzzle in Indo-European perspective
- Workshop “Constructions and valency changing strategies in a diachronic perspective: Evidence from Indo-European and beyond”, the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE51) (Tallinn). Presentation: Lability and syntactic stability: Mechanisms of the emergence of labile verbs in early and late Old Indo-Aryan and Greek (with Nikolaos Lavidas)
- Workshop “Valence orientation in contact: a cross-linguistic perspective”, the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE51) (Tallinn). Presentation: Voice and valence orientation in Indo-European: A diachronic typological perspective (with Nikolaos Lavidas)
- Workshop “Labile verbs and transitivity oppositions in diachrony: Evidence from Indo-European and beyond”, the 48th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2018) (Poznań). Presentation: From intransitive to transitive-causative: Content accusative extension and the rise of labile verbs (Evidence from Indo-Iranian and beyond)
- Workshop “Labile verbs and transitivity oppositions in diachrony: Evidence from Indo-European and beyond”, the 48th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM2018) (Poznań). Presentation: Labile Verbs in Classical and Middle Chinese (with Yezi Mu)
- Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar (Ghent). Presentation: Proto-Bantu middle voice: From Meeussen to Schadeberg and beyond (with Sebastian Dom)
- Belgian Indology Day celebrating Prof.Dr. Adriaan Scharpé (Ghent). Presentation: The Indo-Iranian myth of the primordial incest of Yamī and Yama and its (non-)Indo-European origins: From demonic to human sexuality?
- Workshop "Gradation in Indo-European languages” (Göttingen). Presentation: Gradation in Old Indo-Aryan in typological perspective
On Live-TV: The Indo‐Iranian Myth of Yamī and Yama's Primordial Incest and its (Non‐)Indo‐European Origins: From Demonic to Human Sexuality? (In Russian)
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Leonid Kulikov Explains How the Syntax of Indo-European Languages Changed
From 20th-24th January Leonid Kulikov, (University of Ghent, Belgium) gave HSE linguistics students a mini-course in diachronic typology. The lectures and seminars were on the historical syntax of Indo-European languages in terms of typology.