Institute for Linguistic Studies, Academic research center at Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Institute for Linguistic Studies is a research facility of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg with eight departments and two laboratories. The teams focus on comparative linguistics, dictionary research, and language anthropology.
The institute was founded in 1952 as a branch of the Moscow Institute of Linguistics in Leningrad. It became an independent research facility in 1991 following the Soviet era.
The institute publishes research papers in multiple languages, examining Romance, Germanic, Celtic, Iranian, and Turkic linguistic structures through scientific methodology.
The facility is located on Vasilyevsky Island at 9 Tuchkov Lane and houses an extensive library collection. It supports around 185 specialists working on research projects with various resources.
The institute produces the multivolume encyclopedia 'Languages of the World', an influential reference work for linguists. Additionally, it publishes two academic journals focused on linguistics and classical philology.
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