One of the International Science Olympiads for secondary school students
The logo of the International Linguistics Olympiad
The International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) is one of the International Science Olympiadsfor secondary school students. Its abbreviation IOL is deliberately chosen not to correspond to the name of the organization in any particular language, and member organizations are free to choose for themselves how to designate the competition in their own language.[1] This olympiad furthers the fields of mathematical, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics.
The setup differs from most of the other Science Olympiads, in that the olympiad contains both individual and team contests. The individual contest consists of 5 problems, covering the main fields of theoretical, mathematical and applied linguistics – phonetics, morphology, semantics, syntax, sociolinguistics, etc. – which must be solved in six hours.
The team contest has consisted of one extremely difficult and time-consuming problem since the 2nd IOL. Teams, which generally consist of four students, are given three to four hours to solve this problem.
Like nearly all International Science Olympiads, its problems are translated and completed in several languages and as such must be written free of any native language constraints. However, unlike other olympiads, the translations are provided by the multilingual Problem Committee, a body of experts independent of the delegates' team leaders. Because competitors could gain some advantage if they are familiar with one or more of the language groups which are the subject of some of the assignments, problems are increasingly based on some of the world's lesser known languages. Fortunately, with more than 6,000 languages spoken world-wide (not including so-called dead languages) there are plenty to choose from. The committee has a policy of not using artificial[contradictory] or fictional languages for its problems. The presence of an independent Problem Committee and Jury means that team leaders do not have to be experts in the field (though most are): they can (and often do) work closely with their teams, providing last-minute coaching throughout the week of the competition.
In any case, the most helpful ability is analytic and deductive thinking, as all solutions must include clear reasoning and justification.
History
The concept of self-sufficient linguistics problems was formulated in the 1960s, in the intellectual environment of the recently-founded Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (OTiPL) of the Moscow State University.[2] Moscow linguists in this environment were specially interested in understanding and modelling the formal and mathematical aspects of the natural languages; they were hatching things like the meaning-text theory, the Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics and the beginnings of what later became computational linguistics.[3]
In 1963, Andrey Zaliznyak published a book called Linguistics problems (Лингвистические задачи), explaining in the introduction:
Specially crafted problems can serve as an important tool for teaching the fundamental principles and methods of linguistics. In existing collections, the material used for problems is often drawn from the facts of students' native language or the most well-known European languages. While such tasks are undoubtedly beneficial, they often suffer from the disadvantage that it is challenging to separate the linguistic task itself (which requires nothing but understanding the basic linguistic principles) from testing specific knowledge of the language under consideration. The best (though not the only) way to get rid of that second element, which doesn't directly relate to general linguistics, is to create tasks based on material from languages unfamiliar to the students. Of course, it is more challenging to craft such problems, since all the essential specific facts necessary for solving the task must somehow be presented in the problem data. However, in this case, students only need an understanding of the properties of language in general.[4]
Following the publication, the then student Alfred Zhurinsky[ru] proposed to the mathematics professor Vladimir Uspensky the creation of a high-school olympiad using such problems.
Poster of the First Traditional Olympiad on Linguistics, Moscow 1965
Thus, in 1965, the first edition of the Moscow's Traditional Olympiad on Linguistics and Mathematics was held, with an Organizing Committee composed by Uspensky (president), Igor Miloslavsky,[5]Alexander Kibrik and Anna Polivanova[ru]. The Problem Committee consisted of Zhurinsky (the author of most of the problems) and Zaliznyak, plus Boris Gorodetsky[6] (president), Alexandra Raskina[7] and Victor Raskin.[8][9] The Moscow Olympiad was held regularly until 1982 and resumed again in 1988, being still held nowadays.[10]
In the next decades, olympiads using the format of self-sufficient linguistics problems started to appear in different regions:
In 1984, professor Ruslan Mitkov founded the Bulgarian Olympiad of Mathematical Linguistics, open for high-school students of the whole Bulgaria.[10] In this olympiad, each school could participate with 4 students, thus inspiring the format of the future IOL. From 2001, the Bulgarian Olympiad also started to feature a team competition.[8]
From 1988 to 2000, professor Thomas E. Payne, from the University of Oregon organized a program with linguistics problems for high-school students in the city of Eugene, Oregon, United States. The format was very similar to the Moscow Olympiad, with which he had contact in 1986, when visiting the OTiPL in Moscow. From 2001 to 2006, the competition evolved into an online format, the Linguistics Challenge, which stimulated local linguistics competitions in different U.S. cities. This movement culminated, in 2007, with the creation of the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition.[11][8]
In 1995, a group of professors from the Saint Petersburg State University started to organize the Traditional Olympiad of Linguistics and Mathematics of Saint Petersburg, following a format very similar to that of the Moscow Olympiad. Decades later, in the 2010s, the olympiads of Moscow and Saint Petersburg merged to form a Russian National Linguistics Olympiad.[10][8]
In 2001, a group connected to the Leiden University, including Ruslan Mitkov, the founder of the Bulgarian Olympiad, and two other former participants of the Moscow Olympiad (Alexander Lubotsky participated from 1973 to 1976; Leonid Kulikov participated from 1981 to 1988), founded a Linguistics Olympiad for the Netherlands.
After the foundation of the Bulgarian olympiad, teams of winners of the Moscow Linguistic Olympiad successfully competed in Bulgaria and vice versa, demonstrating good potential for international cooperation in the field. With the multiplication of initiatives, the organizers of the different olympiads decided to organize, in 2003, the First International Olympiad in Theoretical, Mathematical, and Applied Linguistics, with six participating countries:
Russia, with one team from the Moscow Olympiad and another from the Saint Petersburg Olympiad;
Bulgaria, also with two teams, both from the Bulgarian Olympiad;
Netherlands, with a team selected from its newly formed olympiad;
Estonia, with a team from the olympiad organized in the same year by Renate Pajusalu and other professors from Tartu University;
Latvia, with a team of students from Riga's Secondary School No 40, the former school of Alexander Berdichevsky, then a master student at the OTiPL.
Logo of the Second International Linguistics Olympiad (2004), depicting a map of Moscow where each neighborhood (rayon) is marked with a letter in some writing system and the acronym МОЛ-2 (the Cyrillic acronym for 2nd IOL) follows the moskva river.
IOL 2004
The 2nd IOL was held from August 2 to 6, 2004, in the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), in Moscow, Russia.[13][14] Chaired by Vladimir Alpatov, it gathered seven countries, with the first participation of Poland and Serbia and Montenegro. The Problem Committee was chaired by Elena Muravenko; in addition to Berdichevsky, Derzhanski, and Iomdin, it also included Ksenia Gilyarova and Maria Rubinstein. The five problems at the individual contest were in Kayapo, Latin, English, Lakhota and Chuvash. The team problem was in Armenian.
IOL 2005
The 3rd IOL was held from August 8 to 12, 2005, in Leiden, Netherlands.[15] Organized by a Local Committee composed by Alexander Lubotsky, Michiel de Vaan, Alwin Kloekhorst, Jesca Zweijtzer and Saskia Tiethoff, it had the participation of 13 teams from 9 countries, Finland and Romania for their first time. The Problem Committee was chaired by Ksenia Gilyarova. The five problems at the individual contest were in Tzotzil, Lango, Mansi, Yoruba and Lithuanian. The team problem was in Figuig.
IOL 2006
The 4th IOL was held from August 1 to 6, 2006, at the University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.[16] Chaired by Renate Pajusalu, it received also 13 teams from 9 countries, with Lithuania sending a team for the first time. The Problem Committee was chaired by Alexander Berdichevsky. The five problems at the individual contest were in Lakhota (Siouan) syntax, Catalan (Romanic) plural forms, Khmer (Austroasiatic) script, Udihe (Tungusic) possessives and Ngoni (Bantu) syntax. The team problem was in American Sign Language.
IOL 2007
The 5th IOL was held from July 31 to August 4, 2007, at the Hotel Gelios, Saint Petersburg, Russia.[17] Chaired by Stanislav Gurevich, it received 15 teams from 9 countries; Spain, Sweden and USA came for the first time. In that year, it was decided that each country can send one or two teams, consisting of four students each, with the first team's costs fully covered by the host country. Also, the host country could send a third team.[17] The Problem Committee was chaired by Dmitry Gerasimov. The five problems at the individual contest were in Braille, Movima (Isolate), Georgian (Kartvelian), Ndom (Trans-New Guinea), and correspondences between Turkish and Tatar (Turkic). The team problem was in Hawaiian (Polynesian) and focused on genealogical terms.
The 7th IOL was held from July 26 to 31, 2009, at the University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.[19] Chaired by Michał Śliwiński, it received 23 teams from 17 countries, with Australia, United Kingdom, India and Ireland sending teams for the first time. The Problem Committee was chaired by Todor Tchervenkov (University of Lyon, France). The subject matter of the five individual problems covered: numerals in the Sulka language (Isolate), Maninka and Bamana (Mande) languages in the N'Ko and Latin scripts, traditional Burmese (Sino-Tibetan) names and their relation with dates of birth, stress position in Old Indic (Indo-Aryan) and the relation between grammar and morphology in classical Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan). The team problem was in Vietnamese (Austroasiatic).
IOL 2010
The 8th IOL was held from July 19 to 24, 2010, at Östra Real Hostel, Stockholm, Sweden.[20] Chaired by Hedvig Skigård, it received 26 teams from 18 countries, including first time for Norway and Singapore. The Problem Committee was chaired by Alexander Piperski. The individual contest consisted of five problems covering: relations between various verb forms in Budukh (Northeast Caucasian), the Drehu (Oceanic) counting system, Blissymbolics, mRNAcoding, and the connection between Sursilvan and Engadine dialects in Romansh (Western Romance). The team problem involved translating extracts from a monolingual Mongolian (Mongolic) dictionary.
IOL 2011
The 9th IOL was held from July 25 to 30, 2011, at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA [21] - the first time outside of Europe. Chaired by Lori Levin, it received 27 teams from 19 countries, including Brazil, Canada, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam for the first time. The Problem Committee was chaired by Adam Hesterberg. The problems of the individual contest required reasoning about Faroese (Germanic) orthography, Menominee (Algic) morphology, Vai (Mande) syntax, Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan) semantics and the structure of the barcode language EAN-13. The team contest involved the rules and structure of Sanskrit (Indo-Aryan) poetry.
The 18th IOL was scheduled to take place from July 20 to 24, 2020, in Ventspils, Latvia. Due to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic, the International Board of the IOL decided to postpone the event to July 19 to 23, 2021, on which it was successfully held. The competition was held remotely in the respective countries of each team, the first and so far only time that this mode of competition was adopted at the IOL.[32] Chaired by Vladimir Litvinsky, it received 54 teams from 34 countries, with Azerbaijan competing for the first time. The Problem Committee was chaired by Aleksejs Peguševs[et]. The five problems at the individual contest concerned Ekari (Paniai Lakes) numerals, Zuni (Isolate) semantics with special focus on food, Kilivila (Oceanic) morphosyntax, Agbirigba (a cant language) and its derivation from the Ogbakiri dialect of Ikwerre (Atlantic-Congo), and Rikbaktsa (Macro-Jê) morphology. The team problem involved matching sentences in passages written in Garifuna (Arawakan) with its translations, as well as acknowledging the difference between the language's male and female registers and establishing their relationships with Kari'ña (Cariban) and Lokono (Arawakan), respectively.
The 20th IOL was held from July 24 to July 28, 2023 in Bansko, Bulgaria,[34] for the fourth time in this country. Chaired by Aleks Velinov, it received 51 teams from 37 countries, with Philippines competing for the first time. The Problem Committee was chaired by Milena Veneva. The five problems at the individual contest concerned Guazacapán Xinka (a language of Guatemala with now no living native speakers), Apurinã (Arawak) morphosyntax, Coastal Marind (Papuan) morphosyntax, Plains Cree (Algonquian) verb morphology and the numbering system of Supyire spoken in Mali. The team problem presented extracts from Chester S. Street's dictionary of Murrin-patha, an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by over 2,000 people in the Northern Territory.
IOL 2024
The 21st IOL was held from July 23 to July 31, 2024 at the Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil, which was the first time the contest was held in the southern hemisphere. Chaired by Bruno L'Astorina, it received 206 contestants in 52 teams from 38 countries, with Iran and Malta competing for the first time. The Problem Committee was chaired by Andrey Nikulin. The five problems at the individual contest concerned Koryak morphology, Hadza syntax and morphology, kinship terms in Kómnzo, semantics in Dâw, and male-female diglossia in Yanyuwa. The team problem involved lexicostatistics, Dolgopolsky's consonant classes, and the "StarlingNJ" algorithm to compute language family trees and stability indices based on lexicostatistical distance.[35]
IOL 2025
The 22nd IOL is expected to be held in Taipei, Taiwan, in the second half of July 2025.[36]
Summary
The different editions of IOL can be summarized on the following table:
Tian-Yi Damien Jiang Daria Vasilyeva Allen Yuan Aleksejs Peguševs Łukasz Kalinowski Krzysztof Pawlak Daniel Rucki Maciej Dulęba
Mirjam Parve
Miroslav Manolov Alexander Iriza Alan Chang Vitaly Pavlenko Artūrs Semeņuks Mona Teppor Jakob Park Diana Glazova Szymon Kanonowicz Roman Stasiński Ellen Sinot Younus Porteous Ana Pavlović Song Jeeun
Allen Yuan Jekaterina Malina Anton Sokolov Alexander Wade Victor Valov Duligur Ibeling Paul Lau
Min Kyu Kim
Elena Rykunova Artūrs Semeņuks Hyun Park Rok Kaufman Vadim Tukh Daniel Mitropolsky Nik Moore Daniel Rucki Aaron Klein Dimitar Hristov Mihhail Afanasjev Ralf Ahi
Alexander Wade Vadim Tukh Anderson Wang Konrad Myszkowski Jonathan Hongsoon Kim Marin Ivanov Kristian Kostadinov
Darryl Wu
Allan Sadun Eva-Lotta Käsper Tom White Daniel Rucki Aaron Klein Max Allmendinger Ilya Pogodaev Ivan Tadeu Ferreira Antunes Filho Rok Kaufman Hong Bum Choi Ji Wook Kim Sagar Sarda
Pedro Neves Lopes
Erik Andersen Magdalena Dakeva Ants-Oskar Mäesalu Omri Faraggi Anna Sarukhanova Melanie Duncan Baichuan Li Anita Mudzhumdar Estere Šeinkmane Yash Sinha Amelia Shaye Lim Jin Edyta Gajdzik Mette-Triin Purde Erik Tamre Anne Ng Yin-Yi
Vesko Milev Marin Ivanov Ivan Lyutskanov Jacob Karlsson Lagerros Tom McCoy Martyna Judd Ants-Oskar Mäesalu Milena Velikova Jeong Yeon Choi Ekaterina Novikova Maciej Kucharski Daniel Lovsted Maximilian Schindler Jiyun Sung Sarah Tham Jan Bajer
Darryl Wu Daniel Lovsted Elysia Warner Anastasiia Dmitrieva Danila Shumskiy Dan Mirea
Ada Melentieva
Catherine Wu Chen Tianlu Yan Huang Alexander Babiak Zhang Ming Lara Jerman Chen Run Keisuke Yamada Stanisław Wilczyński Felicia Lane Deven Lahoti Xue Dailin
Anindya Sharma
Elena Chaparova Maciej Kocot Matyáš Medek Rajan Dalal Yoojin Jang Dmitrii Zelenskii Annika Kluge Jonathan Johansen Kevin Li Gleb Nikolaev James Bloxham James Abel Yulia Markova Šonita Koroļova Eliška Freibergerová Yang Heran Vitālijs Gusevs Glenn Ee Je Hong Simon Huang Maria Aristova
Samuel Ahmed James Bloxham Danail Penev Kevin Yang Liam McKnight Ada Melentyeva
Kevin M Li
Ying Ming Poh Conor Stuart-Roe Valentin Dimov Daniil Vedeneev Stanisław Frejlak Jin Xu Julian Gau Dan Mircea Mirea Katarzyna Kowalska Ralitza Dardjonova Anthony Bracey Ivan Oleksiyuk Teodora-Elena Solovan Jan Petr Ruowang Zhang Tina Vladimirova
Bálint Ugrin
Nilai Sarda Piotr Gajdzica Zdravko Ivanov Anastasiia Alokhina Pim Spelier Naomi Solomons Anna Tatarenko Jaeyeong Yang Aalok Sathe Anthony Bruce Ma Diana Murzagaliyeva Luke Gardiner Nadezhda Dimitrova Radina Dobreva Emma McLean Irina Česnokova Isabelle Yen Matija Lovšin Naoki Nishiyama Samvida Sudheesh Venkatesh Timurs Davilovs
James Wedgwood Liam McKnight Max Zhang Jan Petr Katya Voloshinova Ivan Samodelkin Kristian Georgiev Samuel Ahmed Polina Nasledskova
Margarita Misirpashayeva
Ioana Bouroș Shuheng Nelson Niu Joonas Jürgen Kisel Zofia Kaczmarek Tina Vladimirova Matija Lovšin Luo Yiming Krzysztof Choszczyk Erik Metz Anna Tatarenko Mihail Paskov Julia Panchenko Shen-Chang Huang Henry Wu Maria Aristova Maciej Paliga
Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
Elena Shukshina Daniel Vedeneev Aalok Sathe Wyatt Reeves Wang Runze David Avellan-Hultman Bruno Ozaki Amanda Kann Agnieszka Dudek Emil Ingelsten Bai Ruiheng Zuzana Gruberová Yu Shuyue Claire O'Connor Tsvetelina Stefanova Theodor Cucu Li Huihan Nadezhda Dimitrova Mazzag Bálint Wojciech Piątek Siye Annie Zhu Mariia Stepaniuk Roman Skurikhin Isobel Voysey Yejoo Han
Przemysław Podleśny Liam McKnight Ruei Hung Alex Lee Zdravko Ivanov Simeon Hellsten Brian Xiao Valentin Dimov Elena Keskinova Theodor Cucu
Andrew Tockman
Takumi Yoshino Joonas Jürgen Kisel Jan Petr Harry Taylor Anja Zdovc Eliška Freibergerová Paweł Piekarz Tereza Maláčová Ben Morris Joseph Feffer Ziyan Heidi Lei Chih-Lun Julian Liu Assel Ismoldayeva Chinmaya Kausik Daniel Vedeneev Szymon Stolarczyk Yao Yung-Jui
Ekaterina Voloshinova
Emil Indzhev Chirag C.D. Iga Jaworska Chen Ziche Aleksei Starchenko Ana Meta Dolinar Siye Annie Zhu Emilian Toma Can Yeşildere Sonia Reilly Alicja Maksymiuk Emil Ingelsten Tanya Romanova Ștefan Răzvan Bălăucă Tina Vladimirova Matei Costin Banu Yuito Yoneyama Liu Yuyang Nazar Semkiv Aleksej Jurca Martin Nikolov
Liam McKnight Swapnil Garg Viktor Baltin Zdravko Ivanov Benjamin LaFond Diego Król Rujul Gandhi Pranav Krishna Alicja Maksymiuk Benedict Randall Shaw Angikar Ghosal Andrew Tockman
Jakub Petr
Chih-Chun Wang Tanya Romanova Mihir Singhal Yeoh Zi Song Simeon Hellsten Ugrin Bálint József Emil Ingelsten Klara Sapała-Niedzin Tung-Le Pan Elena Keskinova Ethan A. Chi Aparna Ajit Gupte João Henrique Oliveira Fontes Russell Emerine You-Kuan Lin Illya Koval
David Avellan-Hultman
Vlada Petrusenko Tsvetelina Stefanova Brian Xiao Ken Jiang Ye Liu Edmund Lea Hari Raghava Prasad James Phillips Yana Shishkina Gustavo Palote da Silva Martins Ekaterina Voloshinova Eliška Freibergerová Sean White Vári-Kakas Andor Árvay-Vass Iván Takumi Nishino Angellika Vojevodina Arkādijs Šaldovs Kevin Liang Shinjini Ghosh Bianca-Mihaela Gănescu Pranava Dhar Martin Puškin Hansol Pi Georgi Yotov Ziche Chen Tiago Scholten Kristina Vashpanova Danyar Kasenov
Wesley Zhang Takumi Yoshino Zdravko Ivanov Matey Petkov Haokun Wu Sam Corner Simeon Hellsten Benedict Randall Shaw Andrew Tockman
Diego Król
João Henrique Fontes Ziyan Heidi Lei Tianqi Jiang Elena Keskinova Jakub Petr Nathan Kim Denis Korotchenko Skyelar Raiti Russell Emerine Gustavo Palote Ishan Ganguly Harrison Moore Tsvetelina Stefanova Maxim Barganov Zi Song Yeoh Jeremy Zhou Pranav Krishna Jinru Bai Kristian Terlien Daniel Turaev
Tatiana Romanova
Kövér Blanka Ekaterina Kozlova Stanislava Khizhniakova Wang, Chih-Chun Vlada Petrusenko Viktor Baltin Matei-Costin Banu Ekaterina Kropanina Angikar Ghosal Aparna Ajit Gupte Haenaem Oh Hant Mikit Kolk Takumi Ose Tsubasa Takahashi Dana Ospanova Nestors Starostins Daria Kryvosheieva Marko Ivanov Kilian Meissner Blaskovics Ákos Rok Tadej Brunšek Zhe Ren Ooi Alex Walker Kristina Vashpanova Lanruo Xie Antara Raaghavi Bhattacharya Seonoo Kim Lee, Yu-Hsuan
Daria Kryvosheieva Jonathan Huang Ritam Nag Hibiki Sugawara Jan Tryka Takamichi Hoshii Chun-Chi Lin Antara Raaghavi Bhattacharya Xie Lingrui Mihai-Alexandru Bratu Elvira Ageeva
Aleksandra Limonova
Tam Lok Hang Alexander Dimitrov Bartosz Chomiński Aleksandra Naydenova Ip Tsz Oi Leonid Zaitsev Toh Jing En Daniel Grigorii Solnyshkin Artem Borisov Nigel Yong Dylan Lim Chun Kiat Samantha Kao Ema Grofová Miklós Gyetvai Zijing Wei Olga Zinovyeva Rio Ogawa Walt Kraeger
Lili Probojcsevity
Shao-Chi Ou Deyana Shevchenko Kunaal Chandrashekar Olivia Tennisberg Jeremy Zhou Vedant Singh Miłosz Muszyński Riley Kong Ng Truman Toby Vasilena Lazarova Matic Petek Mihaela Koleva Ilya Tarasov Ivaylo Dimitrov Nicoleta Dobrică Toby Collins Kyuhan Kyung Yi-Ning Chang Louis Cho Jonathan Song Bianca-Maria Crișan Shashwat Mundra Zekai Wu Vishruth Ram Konakanchi Daina Myer Neithardt Kent Do Oscar Despard Nestors Starostins Noah Gorrell Yen-Hsi Huang Darya Peressypkina Yage Grace Xin
Jun Hyeong Yook Alison Craig-Greene Luke Robitaille Aleksandar Dimitrov Konstantin Georgiev Mihai-Alexandru Bratu Takamichi Hoshii Seiko Ishii
Tam Lok Hang
Kunaal Chandrashekar Vlad-Ștefan Oros Riley Kong William Thomson Rishab Parthasarathy Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford Wojciech Szot Gergana Petrova Daria Kryvosheieva Bartłomiej Rozenberg Long Yo Lee George Zhou Yi Ning Chang Yelyzaveta Sherepenko Merlin Fischer Fernando César Gonçalves Filho Toby Collins Siddhant Attavar Artem Boyko Matouš Šafránek Stratos Voudouris Lorenss Martinsons
Anita Dalma Páhán
Hyunsoo Park Henry Wong Tok Shing Olivia Tennisberg Viktoriia Zubkova Aida Davletova Ikoma Kudo Réka Wagener Egyházi Hanna Benjamin Móricz Teodor Malchev Vita Korošin Tanupat Trakulthongchai Max Naigeborin Elvira Ageeva Aleksandra Naydenova Katja Andolšek Aidan Wang Nestors Starostins Jan Karpiński Nicoleta Dobrică Darya Peressypkina Kevin Yan Inka Pekkola Junhyuk Kwon Rok Tadej Brunšek Józef Szymański
Ryusei Omiya Wonhyun Soh Vlad-Ștefan Oros Daria Kryvosheieva William Keith Thomson Artem Boyko Kunaal Chandrashekar Konstantin Georgiev Leonardo Torres Leonardo Paillo Eleonora Stepanova
Elena Păvăloaia
Panawat Tiacharoen Mihai-Alexandru Bratu Viktoriia Zubkova Jordan Chi Samantha Kao Zhang Yixuan He Jianxing Rei Kano Wong Tok Shing Henry Wojciech Szot Daniel Titmas Alison Craig-Greene Matei Chirila Nestors Starostins Sukrith Velmineti Teodor Malchev Deeraj Pothapragada Eric Wu Bartłomiej Rozenberg Gyuhwa Lee Faraz Ahmed Siddiqui Benjamin Móricz Rami Hennawi
Eleanor Borrel
Chung Chi-En Teresa Lage Arul Kolla Jonasz Kościkiewicz Zori Schmidt Merlin Jonathan Fischer Everton Albuquerque De Oliveira Alexander Shlykov Jiang Yiling Perry Dai Benjamin Yang Luiz Satoshi Yunomae Oikawa Darren Su Chen Nuo Brest Lenarčič Mihaela Anghel Hiroto Yasui Gangrae Kim Li Jiying Wang Po-Hsiang Valeriia Pischchymukha Rando Lukk João Pedro Alves Ferreira Mikhail Iomdin Nikolay Georgiev Carl Fredrik Constantin Lidberg Dimos Satoshi Tsukada Hwang Yen-Hsi Matěj Čapka Manoela Ferraz Bognár András Károly
Devin Joe Alison Craig-Greene Yipeng Xu Tyson Lieu Urszula Wąsiewicz Ryusei Omiya Luiza-Teodora Mihai Narongrith Artnarongrith Brest Lenarčič Leonard Kottisch Varin Sikka Anna Bryłowska
Eric Wu
Wong Tok Shing Henry Marvin Mao Mikhail Iomdin Matei Chirilă Nadežda Efremova Matěj Čapka Karina-Adriana Stăncescu Samantha Kao Gyuhwa Lee Máté Gergely Virág He Jianxing Jiang Yiling Nia Dimitrova Li-Bang Chen Ekaterina Churkina Mihaela Anghel Animikha Dutta Dhar Keisuke Taeda Patricia Király Gangrae Kim Zhu Yucheng Felipe Moraes Barros Rudolf András Virág
Tanupat Trakulthongchai
Satoshi Tsukada Denys Tereshchenko Po-Hsiang Wang Kantetsu Oh Mixail Nikitin Ji Shu Ching Yuji Hokugo Richard Dobíšek Eleonora Stepanova Ani Katelieva Shrilakshmi Venkatraman Choi John Nathaniel Magdalena Vigenina Elena Păvăloaia Nikolay Georgiev Faraz Ahmed Siddiqui Natalia Rewaj Rory Ambrosius Sirma Karadjova Ostap Drushchak Ivanimira Nedelcheva Zachary Yen Nayoon Goo Miroslav Havel Adam Ahlberg Olya Besova Ignacy Jackl
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↑ Original quote: Важным средством обучения основным положениям и методам языкознания могут служить специально составленные задачи. В существующих сборниках в качестве материала для задач в большинстве случаев используются факты родного языка учащихся или наиболее известных европейских языков. Такие задачи, безусловно, полезны, но, к сожалению, они часто страдают тем недостатком, что в них трудно отделить собственно лингвистическое задание (не требующее ничего, кроме понимания основных лингвистических положений) от проверки знания конкретных фактов рассматриваемого языка. Наилучший (хотя отнюдь не единственный) способ избавиться от этого второго элемента задания, не имеющего прямого отношения к общему языкознанию, состоит в том, чтобы составлять задачи на материале языков, незнакомых учащемуся. Разумеется, составлять такие задачи труднее, поскольку все существенные для решения конкретные факты должны быть так или иначе представлены в исходных данных задачи, зато от учащегося в этом случае требуется только представление о свойствах языка вообще. (p. 8) Зализняк, Андрей Анатольевич (2013) [1963]. Лингвистические задачи. Москва: МЦНМО. p.40. ISBN978-5-4439-0094-0.
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