Leonid Kulikov (PhD, Leiden University, 2001; Candidate degree from the Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, 1989; graduated from Moscow State University, Dept. of structural and applied linguistics, 1986); till September 2018 and since January 2021 research fellow at Ghent University; in 2020 guest professor at Ghent University. He was affiliated with Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow (1989-1993), Russian State University for the Humanities [RGGU], Moscow (1991-1993), Leiden University (1993-2002, 2004-2011), University of Nijmegen (2002-2004), Göttingen University (2005-2007, Humboldt-fellowship, project “A grammar of the Rgveda”), Uppsala University (2010), Institute of Linguistics, Moscow (2009-2011), Ghent University (2011-present) and Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) / Louvain-la-Neuve (2021-present), teaching a variety of courses, such as Introduction to historical linguistics, Diachronic typology, Typology of voice and valency-changing categories, Historical and comparative Indo-European linguistics, Elements of Indo-European syntax, Vedic and Sanskrit grammar and Reading of Vedic texts, Sanskrit literature, Languages of Buddhism, Scandinavian linguistics: Old Norse and history of North Germanic languages, Old Church Slavonic. He has published widely on synchronic and diachronic linguistic typology (in particular, on the diachronic typology of voice, transitivity and valency-changing categories), on Vedic philology, and on the Vedic verbal system and syntax, and has edited numerous volumes in the fields of linguistic typology and Indology. He organized a number of international conferences and workshops on historical linguistics and linguistic typology, focusing particularly on historical syntax and synchronic and diachronic typology of transitivity oppositions (University of Nijmegen, 2003; University of Turku, 2006; University of Thessaloniki, 2009, 2011 and 2017; Vilnius University, 2010; Ghent University, 2016; University of Helsinki, 2016; Tallinn University, 2018; Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 2018). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (de Gruyter, Berlin) as well as member of the editorial or advisory boards of a number of linguistic and orientalist journals, such as the Journal of Historical Linguistics (Benjamins, Amsterdam), Moscow Linguistic Journal, Lingua Posnaniensis, Archivio Glottologico Italiano and Bhāṣā - Journal of South Asian Linguistics, Philology and Grammatical Traditions and member of the Scientific Board of the series Mouton Handbook of Indo-European Typology (Mouton – de Gruyter). His current research focuses on the diachronic typology of transitivity, oblique subject, and voice, as well as on the grammar of early Vedic, and a translation of the Atharvaveda (the second most ancient Old Indo-Aryan text).
