Profile / Biography
Biography
A historical linguist, professor and research leader connecting language across time, multilingual societies and emerging technologies.
Yan Kapranov is Professor at the School of Humanities and Fine Arts, VIZJA University in Warsaw, and Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University.
His principal field is historical and comparative linguistics, with particular interests in language relationship, macrocomparative analysis, etymology and the modelling of lexicographic knowledge. His wider work brings these foundations into conversation with corpus linguistics, translation studies, multilingualism, European studies and human–AI language interaction.
Kapranov combines research and teaching with the coordination of international educational projects and the leadership of academic publishing initiatives. At VIZJA University, he coordinates three Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Modules: ESPERIDTA, VISUAL-EU and ROAD2EU.
Academic formation
From translation and language teaching to advanced research in historical linguistics.
Academic title of Full Professor
Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine.
Doctor of Sciences in Philology
Specialisation in historical linguistics, Kyiv National Linguistic University.
Candidate of Sciences / PhD in Philology
Research in historical linguistics and the construction of dictionary entries in English and Ukrainian etymological sources.
BA and MA in English and Italian language studies
Teacher, interpreter and translator qualifications from Kyiv National Linguistic University.
Research trajectory
A career shaped by comparison across languages, institutions and disciplinary boundaries.
Reconstruction and etymology
Research on diachronic interpretation, linguistic kinship, proto-language comparison and the structure of etymological evidence.
Corpora, translation and multilingualism
Corpus-assisted approaches to lexical and discourse patterns, translation, language education and multilingual European contexts.
Migration, identity and participation
International collaboration on language, social interaction, displacement and education across Ukraine, Finland and Poland.
Human–AI interaction
Current work considers how artificial intelligence changes language research, teaching, institutional practice and human responsibility.
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