Igor Mel'čuk
Igor Aleksandrovič Mel'čuk (sometimes Melchuk; Russian: Игорь Александрович Мельчук, Ukrainian: Ігор Олександрович Мельчук; born 1932) is a Soviet and Canadian linguist, a retired professor at the Department of Linguistics and Translation, Université de Montréal. == Biography == He graduated from the Moscow State University's Philological department and worked from 1956 till 1976 for the Institute of Linguistics in Moscow.