Alexander Lehrman - Russian
Research and Publications




Alexander Lehrman, Ph.D.; Yale University, 1985

Associate Professor

Research Motto:

PHILOLOGVS SVM. PHILOLOGICI NIHIL A ME ALIENVM PVTO.

Research Interests: philology (comparative, general, Indo-European, and Russian).

Publications

Books:

Co-edited collection:

    2000:

Essays on Karolina Pavlova: Co-edited with Susanne Fusso. Evanston, Illinois:Northwestern University Press. A collection of essays on the life and oeuvre of Karolina Pavlova (1807-1893).

    1998:

Indo-Hittite Redux: Studies in Anatolian and Indo-European Verb Morphology. Moscow: Paleograph. A contribution to the comparative grammar and phonology of the Indo-Hittite (Anatolian & Indo-European) family of languages.

Articles:

    2000:

(With Susanne Fusso) Introduction, Essays on Karolina Pavlova, pp. vii-xii.
"The Poetics of Karolina Pavlova." Essays on Karolina Pavlova, pp. 3-20.
"Karolina Pavlova's Influence on Mikhail Bulgakov." Essays on Karolina Pavlova, pp. 215-229.
"Karolina Pavlova: A Chronology." Essays on Karolina Pavlova, pp. 251-263.
"The 'Laryngeals' of Proto-Indo-Hittite." To appear in Studies in Nostratic, edited by V. Shevoroshkin. Melbourne: Australian University.

    1999:

Review of No Place Like Home: The Literary Artist and Russian Search for Cultural Identity by Amy C. Singleton, Russian Review, Spring 1999, pp. 134-135.

    1997:

Indogermanische Forschungen 102, pp. 151-155.

    1996:

"Indo-Hittite Revisited." Indogermanische Forschungen 101 (1996), pp. 73-88.

    1995:

Wiener Slawistischer Almanach,    Vol. 35 (1995), pp. 41-75.

    1993:

"Hittite [ispárri]- 'trample' and Vedic sphuráti 'kick'." Die Sprache, 35/1, 1991-1993, pp. 131-132.

("Restore the Letter of the Truth" [on the forced reform of Russian orthography in 1918]), Knizhnoe Obozrenie (The Book Review), No. 42 (1428) [22 October 1993], p. 7.

("The American Best Seller: The Art That Belongs to the People" [on John Grisham's thrillers]), Ogonek, No. 23-24 (4298-4299), pp. 15, 24.

    1992:

("The Belles-Lettres Reader across the Atlantic Is Also the Writer"), Ogonek, No. 20-21, pp. 28-29.

    1990:

"An Etymological Footnote to Chapter Three of Speak, Memory." The Nabokovian, No. 24 (Spring 1990), pp. 32 - 33.

    1989:

"Anatolian cognates of the Proto-Indo-European word for 'wolf," Die Sprache 33/1, pp. 13-18.

    1987:

Russian Linguistics XI, pp. 31-36.

    1985:

"Aleksei Tsvetkov," Handbook of Russian Literature, ed. by Victor Terras, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, p. 487.

[in Lithuanian] ("On A. Julien Greimas's Studies in [Baltic] Mythology"), Proceedings of the Institute of Lithuanian Studies: 1981, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 243-259.

    1983:

"Transitivizing Verb Suffixes in Hittite and Indo-European," Abstracts of the One Hundred and Ninety-Third Meeting of the American Oriental Society, New Haven: American Oriental Society, pp. 52-3.

    1978:

"Essays in Anatolian Onomastics" (I-III), Names, 26/3, pp. 220-230.

Translations:

    1992:

Apresjan, Yuri D. Lexical Semantics. User's Guide to Contemporary Russian Vocabulary, Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers. Chapters 1 - 5 (pp. 1-357).

    1991:

The Roof, a play by Alexander Galin. Performed by University of Delaware's Professional Theatre Training Program, Oct. 23 - Nov. 9, 1991.

    1981:

Podrabinek, Alexander. Punitive Medicine. Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers.

Etymologies:

     2000:

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, with revised and updated versions of my Turkic and other etymologies and "word histories."

    1993:

The American Heritage College Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, with revised and updated versions of my Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Ural-Altaic etymologies and "word histories."

    1992:

All of the etymologies and word histories for entries of Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Ural-Altaic origins in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Creative Works:

Book:

    2001:

When 1 Knew Everything. Poetry (in English). To appear.

Poem:

    1999:

"When I Knew Everything," Poetry, vol. CLXXIV, no. 4 (July), p. 206.

Novel:

    1995:

Paradiz. In Russian. Postskriptum (St. Petersburg, Russia), No. 1, pp. 21-130.

Compact Disc:

    1995:

(The Winds of Change), RDM Co. Ltd. (CDRDM 502075), Moscow.
A compact disc with original music composed and performed by Alexander Lehrman, accompanied by the band SV.

Introduction to the CD , pp. 2-7 of the booklet published with the CD, RDM Company Ltd., Moscow.

Novel Excerpt:

    1992:


Zolotoi viek (Moscow, Russia), No. 3, pp. 41-51.

Work In Progress:

Chekhov's Figural Poetics. A book on Chekhov's stories and plays.
Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard." A new annotated edition and translation of Chekhov's last play.
Philology. Philology as "the knowledge of all that is known" (August Boeckh): tools and methods of sound understanding and fair judgment.
Introduction to Indo-Hittite. An introduction to the comparative and historical study of our family of languages, with the place of Hittite and other Anatolian languages revised in light of recently rediscovered facts.
Lord's Cafeteria & Other Stories. A book of poetry (in English).
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