Alexander Vovin
Alexander Vovin was born in Saint-Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia. MA (1983), PhD (1987). On faculty in Russia: Institute of Oriental manuscripts (formerly LO IVAN) 1983-1990. On faculty in the USA: University of Michigan 1990-1994, Miami University 1994-1995, University of Hawaii at Manoa 1995-2013, On faculty in France: since 2014 Directeur d'études, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Centre de recherche linguistique sur l'Asie orientale. Visiting professor at the International Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto (2001-2002, 2008), National Institute for the Japanese Language and Linguistics , Tachikawa (2012), Ruhr-Universität, Bochum (2008-2009). Member of Academia Europaea (2015), laureate of the 2015 prize by the National Institutes for the Humanities (Tokyo). Recipient of the ERC Advanced Grant for the compilation of the ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE JAPONIC LANGUAGES (2018). Major scholarly interests and directions of research: Japanese, Korean, Mongolian and North Eurasian historical linguistics and philology, Old Japanese literature.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Irina Tigranovna Zograf (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, 1983-1987)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Irina Tigranovna Zograf (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, 1983-1987)
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Göttingen: Universitäts Verlag, 2021. 227 pp.
ISBN 978-3-86395-489-5.
Göttingen: Universitäts Verlag. 2021. IX + 929 pp. ISBN 978-3-86395-481-9.
Martine Robbeets & Alexander Savelyev (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the
Transeurasian Languages. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.