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Vulf Plotkin

Vulf Y. Plotkin (Вульф Яковлевич Плоткин), born in 1927 in Belaruś (then part of the USSR), is a linguist. He earned the degrees of Candidate (1959) and Doctor (1969) of Sciences in Germanic Philology from St. Petersburg University for research in English grammar and diachronic phonology. His teaching career (1953–92) as professor at universities in Novosibirsk, Chişinău, Petrozavodsk and Tula involved lecturing on English grammar and phonology, and on the history of English. In 1992 he retired from academia and settled in Israel.

Plotkin has authored several monographs and over a hundred papers for a scholarly readership. Most of them are in Russian, but updated English editions of his major works have been published, among them: The Dynamics of the English Phonological System (Mouton, 1972), The Language System of English (Brown&Walker, 2006), The Evolution of Germanic Phonological Systems: Proto-Germanic, Gothic, West Germanic, and Scandinavian (Edwin Mellen, 2008).

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