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Victor Raskin, (April 17 1944 – ), is a distinguished professor of linguistics at Purdue University and a member of the advisory board of hakia. He is the author of Semantic Mechanisms for Humor and Ontological Semantics and founding editor (now editor-at-large) of Humor, the journal for the International Society of Humor Studies. He is an associate director and founding faculty member of CERIAS at Purdue University along with Gene Spafford and Mikhail Atallah.

Biography

Victor Raskin was born in Irbit, U.S.S.R. (now the Russian Federation). He has been married to Marina Bergelson since 1965; his daughter Sarah was born in 1982. He and his wife emigrated from the U.S.S.R. to Israel in 1973, and have been Israeli citizens since 1973. They moved to the U.S.A. in 1978, became permanent residents of the U.S.A. in 1979, and became U.S. citizens in 1984.

Education

1970: Ph.D. in Structural, Computational, and Mathematical Linguistics, Moscow State University, USSR
1966: M.A./M.S. summa cum laude in Structural and Computational Linguistics, Moscow State University, USSR
1964: B.A./B.S. in Structural and Computational Linguistics, Moscow State University, USSR

Experience

1999-present Editor-at-Large, HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research

1998-present Charter Member, Internal Advisory Board, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), Purdue University

1994-present PI- and VP-level consultant on natural language and information technology for research laboratories and businesses

1980-present Professor of English and Linguistics, Purdue University

2000 President, International Society of Humor Research

1995-99 Chair, Graduate Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, Purdue University

1987-99 Editor-in-Chief, HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research

1979-99 Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, Purdue University

1979-80 Associate Professor of English and Linguistics, Purdue University

1978-79 Associate Professor of English, Purdue University

1978 Visiting Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan

1973-78 Senior Associate Professor of Russian and Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

1973-78 Senior Associate Professor of Linguistics (half-time), Tel Aviv University, Israel

1966-73 From Lecturer to Acting Associate Professor of Linguistics, Moscow State University

1962-73 From Junior Assistant to Group Leader, Computational Linguistics Lab, Moscow State University

Major Publications

Solely authored books:

K teorii yazykovykhp odsistem /Towards a Theory of Linguistic Subsystems/ (420 pp.), Moscow University Press, 1971

Semantic Mechanisms of Humor (302 pp.), Dordrecht - Boston - Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1985

Co-authored books:

Metody semanticheskogo issledovaniya ogranichennogo podyazyka /Methods of Semantic Investigation of a Restricted Sublanguage/ (414 pp.), Moscow University Press, 1971 (with B. Gorodetsky)

Slovari slovosochetaniy i chastotnye slovari slov ogranichennogo podyazyka /Dictionaries of Word Combinations and Dictionaries of Words with Frequencies of a Restricted Sublanguage/ (538 pp.), Moscow University Press, 1972 (with B. Y. Gorodetsky, A. E. Kibrik, L. S. Logakhina, G. V., Maksimova, and E. S. Prytkov)

200 zadachp o yazykovedeniyu i matematike /200 Problems in Linguistics and Mathematics/ (252 pp.), Moscow University Press, 1972 (with Boris Gorodetsky)

Produktivnoe slovoslozhenie v shugnanskom, vengerskom, saamskom, khinalug skom i lezginskom yazykakh: Rezultaty polevoy lingvistiki /Productive Word

Compounding in Shugnan, Hungarian, Saami, Hinalug, and Lezghin: Field Linguistics Results (678 pp.). Moscow: Moscow University Press, 1974 (with Boris Gorodetsky--the book was confiscated and the run, apparently, destroyed after and because of Raskin's emigration in 1973).

Language and Writing: Applications of Linguistics to Rhetoric and Composition (279 pp.), Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987 (with I. H. Weiser)

Ontological Semantics (350 pp.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004 (with Sergei Nirenburg).
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