Lev Alekseevich Novikov

(May 22, 1931, Fryanovo village, Moscow region - March 18, 2003, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian linguist, specialist in the field of the Russian language and general linguistics. Doctor of Philology (1974), Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1993), Full Member of the International Academy of Sciences of Higher Education.

Biography

In 1954 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov. Since 1958 he taught at the Department of General and Russian Linguistics at the 1st Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. In 1961 he defended his thesis of the candidate of philological sciences on the topic "Homonymy of nouns in the modern Russian literary language."

In 1962, he was invited to the position of senior lecturer at the Russian Language Department of the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University. Since 1966 he worked at the Scientific and Methodological Center of the Russian Language of Moscow State University, in 1973 transformed into the State Institute of the Russian Language named after A.S. Pushkin (head of the sector of educational lexicography, then deputy director for scientific work). In 1974 he defended his doctoral dissertation “Antonymy in the Russian language. (Theory. Semantic analysis. Classification of antonyms) ".

From 1977 until his death, he headed the Department of General and Russian Linguistics at the Faculty of Philology of the RUDN University, in 1991-1996 he was the dean of the faculty (the last dean of the Faculty of History and Philology of the RUDN University, in 1996 the faculty became simply philological). In 1988-1994 he also worked at the Institute of the Russian Language of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (RAS). He was the chairman of the Dissertation Defense Council.

Took part in the development of the federal target program "Russian language". Deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine "Russian speech", editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Linguistics Series ".

Under the editorship of L. A. Novikov, the textbook "Russian language" was published in 2003, which brought together such sections as "Phonetics", "Lexicology", "Word formation", "Morphology", "Syntax" (previously they were published on separately).

Buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery.