Yury Lander
- Associate Professor: Faculty of Humanities / School of Linguistics
- Leading Research Fellow: Linguistic Convergence Laboratory
- Programme Academic Supervisor: Fundamental and Computational Linguistics
- Yury Lander has been at HSE University since 2012.
Education and Degrees
Russian State University for the Humanities
Thesis Title: "Relativization in a polysynthetic language: Adyghe relative constructions in a typological perspective"
Russian State University for the Humanities, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
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.
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2018, 2015–2016
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2023, 2021
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Digital Skills’ — 2023–2024
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘International Admissions’ — 2024
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Retention and Loyalty’ — 2024
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Satisfaction with Degree Programme Quality’ — 2023–2024
Best Academic Supervisor in the category ‘Student Engagement in Inter-Campus and Inter-Faculty Activities’ — 2023
Courses (2024/2025)
- Introduction to Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Grammatical Categories (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Linguistic Typology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Adyghe Language" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 4 module)Rus
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Agile (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Autism Spectrum Disorders (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Biological Foundations of Psychopathology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Data Structures (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Data Structures (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Folkloristic Archaeology: Mythological Motifs on the World Map (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Instrumental Phonetics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Introduction to Formal Concept Analysis (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Introduction to Formal Concept Analysis (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Introduction to Multilingual and Multicultural Education (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Introduction to Multilingual and Multicultural Education (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Language, Proof and Logic (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Language, Proof and Logic (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Launching a Digital Humanities project (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Linguistic Typology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Mathematical Methods in Psychology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Neural Networks and Text Processing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Neurolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Psychology of Consciousness (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Adyghe Language" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 4 module)Rus
- Theoretical Phonetics of the English Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Theoretical Phonetics of the English Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Towards Language Universals through Lexical Semantics: Introduction to Lexical and Semantic Typology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Towards Language Universals through Lexical Semantics: Introduction to Lexical and Semantic Typology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
Courses (2021/2022)
- Linguistic Typology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Adyghe Language" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 4 module)Rus
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- American Deaf Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- American Deaf Culture (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Bayesian Statistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Bayesian Statistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Bayesian Statistics: From Concept to Data Analysis (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Bayesian Statistics: From Concept to Data Analysis (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- European Languages in Linguistic Variation Perspective (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Getting and Cleaning Data (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Inferential Statistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Language Diversity (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 3 year, 4 module)Rus
- Linguistic Typology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Questionnaire Design for Social Surveys (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Questionnaire Design for Social Surveys (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Questionnaire Design for Social Surveys (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Regression Modeling in Practice (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Regression Modeling in Practice (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Regression Models (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Research seminar "Standard Indonesian" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Sampling People, Networks and Records (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Statistical Inference (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Statistics with R Specialization (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- The Bilingual Brain (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- The Bilingual Brain (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- The Bilingual Brain (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
- Theory of Language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Towards language universals through lexical semantics: introduction to lexical and semantic typology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Eng
- Towards language universals through lexical semantics: introduction to lexical and semantic typology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Eng
Dissertation
Релятивизация в полисинтетическом языке: адыгейские относительные конструкции в типологической перспективе
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Unpublished manuscripts
Lander, Yu. 2003. Nominal reduplication in Indonesian challenging the theory of grammatical change. (Revised version of a paper presented at the 7th International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics, Nijmegen/Berg en Dal, 2003.)
Ландер Ю.А. 2005. Русский разговорный субъектный результатив
Lander, Yu. 2009. Subject properties of the Adyghe absolutive: evidence from relatives. (Revised version of a paper presented at the international workshop on ergativity, Tbilisi, 2009.)
Ландер Ю.А., Выдрин А.П. 2010. Неканоническое маркирование субъекта ситуации в языках Северного Кавказа: модальные конструкции. (Revised version of a paper presented at the international workshop on ergativity, Tbilisi, 2009.)
Grants
2005-2006. RFFI [Russian Foundation for Basic Research] research grant No. 05-06-80400a to Timur Maisak (primary researcher), Yury Lander, Ekaterina Rakhilina: Database for the lexical typology of motion in water (AQUA-motion)
2005-2006. RALN [Russian Academy of Linguistic Sciences] research grant to Dmitry Ganenkov, Yury Lander, Timur Maisak: Documentation of the Udi language
2006-2007. RGNF [Russian Foundation for Humanities] research grant No. 06-04-00194a to Yakov Testelets (primary researcher), Nina Sumbatova, Yury Lander et al.: Syntax of a polysynthetic language
2009-2010. RGNF [Russian Foundation for Humanities] research grant No. 09-04-00168a to Arseny Vydrin (primary researcher), Yury Lander, Julia Mazurova et al.: An investigation of the modal system of Ossetic and its main dialects
2010-2011. RGNF [Russian Foundation for Humanities] research grant No. 10-04-00228а to Nina Sumbatova (primary researcher), Yury Lander, Rasul Mutalov, Natalia Serdobolskaya et al.: The areal distribution of grammatical features in Dargwa and other languages of Central Daghestan
2011-2013. RFFI [Russian Foundation for Basic Research] research grant No. 11-06-00481-а to Yury Lander (primary researcher), Dmitry Ganenkov, Timur Maisak: Morphosyntax of Udi: a corpus-based study
2011-2012. FFLI [Foundation for Fundamental Linguistic Research] grant No. A-46 to Nina Sumbatova (primary researcher), Yury Lander et al.: Grammatical description of Dargwa dialects
2014-2015. Higher School of Economics research grant: Functioning of the morphology in a polysynthetic language
2014-2016. RGNF [Russian Foundation for Humanities] research grant No. 14-04-00580 to Anton Tsimmerling (primary researcher) et al.: Interaction of the grammatical mechanisms in the languages of the world
2015-2017. RFFI [Russian Foundation for Basic Research] research grant No. 15-06-07434a to Yury Lander (primary researcher), Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Irina Bagirokova, George Moroz: Computer-based documentation of a polysynthetic language
Members of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory contributed chapters to new Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus
A new Oxford Handbook dedicated to the languages of the Caucasus appeared this month. It contains several contributions from members of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory.
Members of the Linguistic convergence laboratory participated in the SLE conference online
The 53rd SLE conference was held in an unconventional format for the first time in history. The Linguistic convergence laboratory was represented by a number of talks.
Language Science Press has published a book on the Mehweb language
Language Science Press has published a book on the Mehweb language, edited by Michael Daniel and Nina Dobrushina of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory and Dmitry Ganenkov of the Laboratory of Caucasian languages.
Documenting a West Circassian Dialect in Israel
From October 25 to November 1 2017, Yury Lander and Irina Bagirokova spent over a week in Israel, documenting a West Circassian dialect.
'HSE Students Are not Content with Knowing Things — They Immediately Want to Solve Linguistic Problems'
Guglielmo Cinque is a professor of linguistics at the University of Venice and one of the most well-known European generativists. Recently he paid a week-long visit the HSE School of linguistics, and now shares his impressions of our students and staff, as well as of this year's weather in Moscow.
'HSE students are not content with knowing things — they immediately want to solve linguistic problems'
Guglielmo Cinque is a professor of linguistics at the University of Venice and one of the most well-known European generativists. Recently he paid a week-long visit the HSE School of linguistics, and now shares his impressions of our students and staff, as well as of this year's weather in Moscow.
'I am happy the conference on the Caucasian languages finally took place in Moscow'
In the end of November the School of Linguistics hosted the Uslar Conference — an international event for scholars studying the Caucasian languages. Participants and organizers share their impressions below.
Posters and Fashion Shows: The New Final Exam
This is not the first year that certain HSE programmes are giving an unusual twist to the way they give exams and carry out thesis defences. Below are a few notable examples.
Linguists away at Summer School
HSE lecturers and students took part in the 2015 Summer School near the town of Dubna from July 11 through August 10. The representatives of the HSE School of Linguistics organised two different workshops at this year’s School, one on Language and the Brain, aimed at research in the field of neurolinguistics, and one on Linguistics Research, the main areas of which included field linguistics and anthropology.
Linguists away at Summer School
HSE lecturers and students took part in the 2015 Summer School near the town of Dubna from July 11 through August 10. The representatives of the HSE School of Linguistics organised two different workshops at this year’s School, one on Language and the Brain, aimed at research in the field of neurolinguistics, and one on Linguistics Research, the main areas of which included field linguistics and anthropology.