Dr. L.I. (Leonid) Kulikov

Function:
  • Post-doctoral researcher
Expertise:
  • Indo-European

Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2727
E-Mail: l.kulikov@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics, LUCL promovendus
Office Address: Witte Singel-complex
P.N. van Eyckhof 3
2311 BV Leiden
Room number 103A
 
Personal Homepage: www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/organisation/members/kulikovli.html
Fields of interest
     •     Vedic and classical Sanskrit, Vedic studies
     •     Syntactic and morphological linguistic typology (especially typology of verbal categories)
     •     Historical linguistics and diachronic typology
     •     Maldives (language, history, culture)
Research
  • Project “A grammar of the Rgveda”
  • Project “Valence-changing categories in Indo-Aryan: a diachronic typological approach (syntactic database)”
  • Project “Labile verbs in a diachronic typological perspective“
  • Translation and linguistic analysis of Book XIX of the Atharvaveda
  • “Indo-European Case and Argument Structure in a Typological Perspective” (invited participant at the project supervised by Dr. J. Barðdal, University of Bergen)
  • Project “Case Cross-linguistically” (2002-2004; see http://www.ru.nl/pionier/research/projects/case/ )
  • Indo-Aryan inherited lexicon (etymological database; see http://www.ieed.nl/index2.html)
Teaching activities
2004-2009 
Courses taught at Leiden University
Typology of voice and valency-changing categories  (planned for 2010, with M. Mous)
Typology (part of the course of M. Klamer)
Historical Grammar of Sanskrit
Vedic Sanskrit   2004-2008
Linguistic Typology (part of the course Approaches to Diversity)

2007-2010 
Invited seminars
Diachronische Typologie (one week), Universität Salzburg (FB Linguistik) (March 2010)
Historical Typology and Vedic Syntax (one week), University of Palermo/Agrigento (June 2009) 
Elements of the Vedic grammar; Reading of selected Vedic texts (two weeks), Uppsala University (May 2009)
Introduction to Vedic Sanskrit (two weeks), 3rd Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics (August, 2008)
Fundamentals of the Vedic grammar. Reading of selected early and middle Vedic texts (two weeks), Russian State University for Humanities (RGGU), Moscow (in Russian) (April 2007)

2005-2007 
Courses taught at Göttingen University
Lektüre ausgewählter Lieder des Rgvedaund Elemente der Vedischen Grammatik
Sanskrit-Lektüre (Sanskrit II)

2003-2004
Course taught at University of Nijmegen
Inleiding tot de Historische Taalkunde [Elements of Historical Linguistics] (part of the course Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics)

1991-1993 
Courses taught at the Russian State University forHumanities [RGGU] ( Moscow): 
Sanskrit
Introduction to the History of the Classical Indian Literature
Introduction to Linguistic Typology

 
Curriculum Vitae
2004-2008      
post-doc at Leiden University, Dept. of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics / Leiden University Centre of Linguistics, Project “Valence-changing categories in Indo-Aryan: a diachronic typological approach” 

2005-2007     
post-doc (Humboldt-Stipendiat) at Göttingen University, Project “A grammar of the Rgveda”

2002-2004      
post-doc at the University of Nijmegen at the PIONIER-Project “Case cross-linguistically”

2001               
post-doctoral project “Editing the Indo-Aryan etymological database” at Leiden University, Dept. of Comparative Linguistics (see http://www.ieed.nl/index2.html various post-doctoral projects at Leiden University, Dept. of Comparative Linguistics.  

1993-1997      
Teaching/Research Assistant (AIO) at Leiden University (Dept. of Comparative Linguistics), topic of the PhD thesis: “The Vedic -ya-presents”, supervisor: Prof. A. Lubotsky. PhD defence: 23 May 2001.  

1991-1993      
Teaching Sanskrit and Indian Literature at the Russian State University for Humanities [RGGU] (Moscow), Faculty of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.  

1989-1993      
Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, Department of Languages; Secretary of the same Department.  

1986-1989      
post-graduate student at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, topic of the thesis: “The Causative in Sanskrit”; supervisor: Prof. T.Ja. Elizarenkova. Candidate Degree defence: November 1989.  

1981‑1986      
student at Moscow State University, Faculty of Arts, Dept. of structural and applied linguistics (OSiPL), M.A. degree obtained in 1986 (M.A. thesis [diploma] topic: “Given/new and definite/indefinite opposition in Russian”; supervisor: Prof. A.E. Kibrik).

Other academic activities:  

2007-              
member of the Editorial Board of Acta Orientalia Vilnensia 

2000-2002             
editing papers on the historical phonology of classical Armenian by F.H.H. Kortlandt and R.S.P. Beekes ( Armeniaca ; published by Caravan Books, Ann Arbor, 2003) 

2001-2005      
organization of the Linguistic Olympics for secondary school students, held at the Faculty of Arts of Leiden University (I-V Leidse Taalkunde Olympiade, III International Linguistic Olympics) 

1995-1997      
member of the Editorial Staff of the “IIAS [International Institute of Asian Studies] Newsletter” (Leiden, IIAS): editor/correspondent for Russia and CIS

Organization of conferences and workshops:

2009          
Workshop “Typology of labile verbs: Focus on diachrony” (as part of the 19th International Symposium  on  Theoretical & Applied Linguistics), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (together with Nikolaos Lavidas); see http://www.enl.auth.gr/symposium19/

2006          
Workshop “Diachronic typology of voice and valency-changing categories”, University of Turku (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) (together with Seppo Kittilä); see http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/context/context.shtml and http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/context/workshop_schedule.pdf  (conference papers, together with some additional materials, will appear at John Benjamins, Amsterdam, in Studies in language companion series)

2003          
Workshop “Case, Valency and Transitivity”, University of Nijmegen (together with Andrej Malchukov & Peter de Swart) (conference papers are published in 2006 at John Benjamins, Amsterdam, as Studies in language companion series, vol. 77 

1993          
First Conference on theoretical linguistics at the Russian State University for Humanities (RGGU), Moscow (conference materials are published as: Tezisy pervoj konferencii po teoretičeskoj lingvistike. Moscow: RGGU)

Field work experience 

1982-1985      
Maldivian [Indo-Aryan] (individual work with a native speaker in Moscow) 

1986-1988 
Summer linguistic expeditions organized by the Moscow State University under the guidance of Prof. A.E. Kibrik: 

1986      
Tuvan [Turkic], research topic: “Causatives”; 

1987 
Abkhaz [North-West Caucasian], research topic: “Clause union constructions and masdar agreement”; 

1988 
Svan [Kartvelian / South Caucasian], research topic: “Causative, voice, and verbal morphology”

1991
Talysh [Iranian] (individual work with a native speaker in Moscow) 

1992
Summer linguistic expedition organized by the Russian State University for Humanities under the guidance of Prof. E.A. Xelimskij, research topic: “Verbal derivation in Nganasan [Samoyed language family] and Dolgan [Turkic language family]”
Publications
Kulikov, L.I. (2001) Causatives. In: M. Haspelmath et al. (eds) Language typology and language universals. An international handbook. Vol. 2. Berlin etc.: Walter de Gruyter, p. 886-898.

Kulikov, L.I. (2005) Reduplication in the Vedic verb: Indo-European inheritance, analogy and iconicity. In: B. Hurch (ed.) Studies on reduplication. Berlin: Mouton, p. 431-454.

Kulikov, L.; Malchukov, A. & Swart, P. de (eds) (2006) Case, Valency and Transitivity. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (Studies in Language Companion Series; 77).

Kulikov, L.I. (2006) The Sanskrit -yet-optative: A formation not yet recorded in Sanskrit grammars. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 50: 27-68.

Kulikov, L.I. (2007) The reflexive pronouns in Vedic: A diachronic and typological perspective. Lingua 117/8: 1412-1433.

Kulikov, L.I. (2007) Reciprocal constructions in Vedic. In: V. P. Nedjalkov et al. (eds) Reciprocal constructions. Vol. 2. Amsterdam: Benjamins, p. 709-738.

Kulikov, L.I. (2009) Evolution of case systems. In: A. Malchukov & A. Spencer (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 439-457.

LUCL Office – 07/09/2009