A brief outline of S.I. Gindin’s scientific biography

The article commemorates the 80^th birthday anniversary of Sergei Gindin. It provides a brief overview of the conference “Spheres and boundaries of linguistic research. In memory of S.I. Gindin”, held by the Institute of Linguistics in March 2024 at the RSUH. It also presents a biographical information about the main stages of Sergei Iosifovich’s creative career, his achievements as a theoretical scientist who combined philological and linguistic approaches in creating ‘text linguistics’, as a practiсal scientist, who compiled a systematic index of Russian works on poetry since 1958, developed an information base on the works of V. Bryusov, as a lecturer and head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, who has prepared a number of university courses in linguistics and philology, as an editor and educator, who prepared many publications and articles contributing to the popularization of Russian humanities. 

1. Gindin, S.I. (1968), “V.Ya. Briusov on the speech nature of the verse and the Russian equivalents of antique versification-metres”, Voprosy yazykoznaniya, no. 6, pp. 124–126.

2. Gindin, S.I. (1971), Svyaznyi tekst: formal’noe opredelenie i elementy tipologii [Coherent text. Formal definition and elements of typology], Moscow, USSR. (Predvaritel’nye publikatsii Instituta russkogo yazyka AN SSSR; iss. 24)

3. Gindin, S.I. (1973), “Bryusov’s description of the metrics of Russian verse from the viewpoint of the modern typology in linguistic descriptions”, in Jacobson, R., van Schoneveld, S.H. and Worth, D.S., eds., Slavic poetics: Essays in honor of Kiril Taranovski, The Hague Mouton, Hague, Netherlands, pp. 151–160.

4. Gindin, S.I. and Leontieva, N.N. (1978), Problemy analiza i sinteza tselogo teksta v sistemakh mashinnogo perevoda, dialogovykh i informatsionnykh sistemakh [Issues of whole text analysis and synthesis in machine translation systems, dialog and information systems], Vsesoyuznyi tsentr perevodov, Moscow, USSR. (Perevod nauchno-tekhnicheskoi literatury i dokumentatsii; iss. 2)

5. Gindin, S.I. (2003), “Hypertext philological system on the works of V. Bryusov”, in Moskovskii lingvisticheskii zhurnal, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 219–226.

6. Gindin, S.I. (1994), “Speech actions and speech works”, in Logicheskii analiz yazyka: Yazyk rechevykh deistvii: sbornik statei [Logical analysis of language. The language of speech actions. Collected articles], Nauka, Moscow, Russia, pp. 59–63.