Victor Raskin

Biography

Education

• 1970: Ph.D. in Structural, Computational, and Mathematical Linguistics, Moscow State University, USSR
• 1966: M.A./M.S. summa cum laude in Structural and Computational Linguistics, Moscow State University, USSR
• 1964: B.A./B.S. in Structural and Computational Linguistics, Moscow State University, USSR

  Experience

• 1999–present Editor-at-Large, HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research
• 1998–present Charter Member, Internal Advisory Board, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, Purdue University
• 1994–present PI- and VP-level consultant on natural language and information technology for research laboratories and businesses
• 1980–present Professor of English and Linguistics, Purdue University
• 2000 President, International Society of Humor Research
• 1995-99 Chair, Graduate Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, Purdue University
• 1987-99 Editor-in-Chief, HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research
• 1979-99 Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, Purdue University
• 1979-80 Associate Professor of English and Linguistics, Purdue University
• 1978-79 Associate Professor of English, Purdue University
• 1978 Visiting Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan
• 1973-78 Senior Associate Professor of Russian and Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• 1973-78 Senior Associate Professor of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• 1966-73 From Lecturer to Acting Associate Professor of Linguistics, Moscow State University
• 1962-73 From Junior Assistant to Group Leader, Computational Linguistics Lab, Moscow State University

  Major publications

Solely authored books

• K teorii yazykovykh podsistem /Towards a Theory of Linguistic Subsystems/, Moscow University Press, 1971
• Semantic Mechanisms of Humor, Dordrecht - Boston - Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1985

  Co-authored books

• Metody semanticheskogo issledovaniya ogranichennogo podyazyka /Methods of Semantic Investigation of a Restricted Sublanguage/, Moscow University Press, 1971
• Slovari slovosochetaniy i chastotnye slovari slov ogranichennogo podyazyka /Dictionaries of Word Combinations and Dictionaries of Words with Frequencies of a Restricted Sublanguage/, Moscow University Press, 1972
• 200 zadach po yazykovedeniyu i matematike /200 Problems in Linguistics and Mathematics/, Moscow University Press, 1972
• Produktivnoe slovoslozhenie v shugnanskom, vengerskom, saamskom, khinalugskom i lezginskom yazykakh: Rezultaty polevoy lingvistiki /Productive Word Compounding in Shugnan, Hungarian, Saami, Hinalug, and Lezghin: Field Linguistics Results. Moscow: Moscow University Press, 1974.
• Language and Writing: Applications of Linguistics to Rhetoric and Composition, Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987
• Ontological Semantics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.

  Former students

• Christian F. Hempelmann
• Salvatore Attardo
• Sergei Nirenburg
• Dallin D. Oaks