Isaak Revzin

Isaak Iosifovich Revzin was a Russian linguist and semiotician associated with the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School.

Life

Isaac Revzin was born in Istanbul. He worked at the Institute of Foreign Languages. A structural linguist, he proposed that linguistics be developed as a formal axiomatic theory. Despite the fact that he was a specialist in machine translation, he only saw a computer once in his life. He also wrote in collaboration with his wife, Olga Revzina. He died in Moscow.
His son, Grigory Revzin, living in Moscow, is an art critic and a journalist.

Works

'Expérimentation sémiotique chez Eugene Ionesco', Semiotica 4, pp. 240–262.
'The relationship between structural and statistical methods in modern linguistics', Foreign developments in machine translation and information processing, 1961, pp. 43–53Models of language, London: Methuen, 1966. Translated by N. F. C. Owen and A. S. C. Ross from the Russian Modeli jazyka.The fundamentals of human and machine translations, 1966