Andrej Malchukov - Biography#

Andrej Malchukov is an invited professor (außerplanmäßiger Professor) at the University of Mainz and an affiliated Senior Researcher at the St.-Petersburg Institute for Linguistic Research (Russian Academy of Sciences).

Previously, he had a fellowship at the Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), in the Department of Linguistics. Before this, he had a research position in the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St-Petersburg).

Apart from descriptive work on Siberian languages (in particular, Tungusic), his main research interests lie in the domain of language typology. He has published extensively on the issues of morpho-syntactic typology; in particular, he edited various important volumes, among which:

The Oxford Handbook of Case (together with Andrew Spencer; OUP, 2009)

Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: a Comparative Handbook (together with Bernard Comrie and Martin Haspelmath; Mouton de Gruyter, 2010)

Competing motivations in grammar and cognition (together with Brian MacWhinney and Edith Moravcsik; OUP, 2014)-

Valency classes in the world’s languages (together with Bernard Comrie; 2 vols., Mouton de Gruyter, 2015) -

Grammaticalization scenarios: cross-linguistic variation and universal tendencies (together with Walter Bisang; 2 vols., Mouton de Gruyter, 2020).

These important collective works, to which prominent specialists have contributed, testify to the candidate's intense activity as a stimulator of scientific collaboration.

Google Scholar lists 3402 citations on Andrej Malchukov's profile, with an H-factor 31 (on 16 December 2021).