Leonid Kulikov

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

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 (2022/2023)

• Brahmanic Prose (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 5 year, 1-3 module)Rus
• Past Courses

Courses (2020/2021)

Conferences

• 2022
  XII научная конференция «Древность: историческое знание и специфика источника», посвящённая памяти Эдвина Арвидовича Грантовского и Дмитрия Сергеевича Раевского (Москва). Presentation: Кентавры, цербер и их (не)индоевропейские родственники: к вопросу о контактах индоевропейцев на Ближнем Востоке
• Jenaer Maikolloquium “Reduplikation in indogermanischen Sprachen” (Jena). Presentation: The polysemy of reduplication in the Indo-Iranian and Indo-European verbal system: causativity, telicity, transitivity (key note lecture)
• XLIII Зографские чтения «Проблемы интерпретации традиционного индийского текста» (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Ведийское vrā́- «барышня» (?): Этимология, семантика, контекст
• 10th International Colloquium of Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL-10) (Madrid). Presentation: Κένταυρος and his possible etymological relatives: Evidence from Indo-European and beyond
• 2-я международная индологическая конференция «Дубянские чтения» / The Dubyanskiy Readings (Москва). Presentation: Этюд в багровых тонах: к интерпретации стиха «Ригведа» 10.85.28 (Свадебный гимн)
• 2021
  Семинар 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)
• 2020
  The 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)
• 2019
  The 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
• 2018
  Joint 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