Igor Mel'čuk

Igor Mel'čuk
Igor Mel'čuk in 2006
Born	Igor Aleksandrovič Mel'čuk (1932-10-19) 19 October 1932 (age 84) Odessa, USSR
Residence	Montreal, Canada
Citizenship	Canada
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Known for	Meaning-Text Theory

Igor Aleksandrovič Mel'čuk, sometimes Melchuk (Ukrainian: Ігор Олександрович Мельчук; born 1932), is a retired professor at the Department of Linguistics and Translation, Université de Montréal.

He graduated from the Moscow State University's Philological department. From 1956 till 1976 he worked for the in Moscow. He is known as one of the developers of Meaning-Text Theory with the seminal book published in 1974. He is also the author of Cours de morphologie générale in 5 volumes.

After making statements in support of Soviet dissidents Andrey Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel he was fired from the Institute, and subsequently emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1976. Since 1977 he has lived and worked in Canada.