Educated at the Moscow State University and University of Southern California (Ph.D in Linguistics, 1996). Habilitated at Vinogradov Russian Language Institute in 2015. Taught courses at University of Southern California, Russian State University of Humanities, Dartmouth College, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”. Worked as a leading researcher at the Sector for Theoretical Semantics, Vinogradov Russian Language Institute.

Apresyan V., Kopotev M. 2022. Absolutive distributive constructions with interrogative pronouns in Russian (in Russian). Voprosy jazykoznanija. 4. p. 115-142

Apresyan V. 2022. Prices are rising, wages are falling: argument structure of verbs denoting ‘increase’ and ‘decrease’ in the Russian language (in Russian). Russian Journal of Linguistics. V. 26, No 1, p. 194-223

Apresyan V., Orlov A. 2022. Pragmatic mechanisms of manipulation in Russian online media: how clickbait works (or does not). Journal of Pragmatics. Vol. 195, pp. 91-108.

Apresyan V., Lopukhina A., Zarifyan M. 2021. Representation of Different Types of Adjectival Polysemy in the Mental Lexicon. Frontiers in Psychology. Vol. 12. Article 742064

Apresyan V. 2020. Resolving Scope Ambiguity: Lexicon, pragmatics, information structure. Voprosy jazykoznanija, No. 2 P. 7-3.

Apresyan V., Shmelev A. 2020. Assymetry of ‘proximal’ and ‘distal’: temporal meanings (in Russian). Russian Linguistics. V. 44. № 3. С. 203-230.

Apresyan V. 2019. Pragmatics in the interpretation of scope ambiguities. Intercultural Pragmatics. Vol. 16. No. 4. P. 421-461.

Apresyan V. 2018. Russian constructions with syntactic reduplication of color terms: a corpus study. Russian Journal of Linguistics. V. 3. 653-674.

Language and Communication

Introduction into Cognitive Linguistics

Experimental semantics

Experimental pragmatics