Academicians :: LUKASHANETS Alexander Alexandrovich

— Graduated from Belarusian State University (1977), postgraduate study at the Institute of the Russian Language of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1978–1981).
— Since 1977 - Junior Researcher, since 1985 - Senior Researcher, since 1986 - Scientific Secretary, since 1989 - Deputy Director for Science, since 2003 - Director of the Institute of Linguistics named after Yakub Kolas of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
— Since 2008 - Director of the Institute of Language and Literature named after Yakub Kolas and Yanka Kupala of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, since 2012 - First Deputy Director for Research of the Center of Studies of Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Director of the branch "Institute of Language and Literature named after Yakub Kolas and Yanka Kupala" (2012-2015). Chairman of the Belarusian (since 2004) and International (2008-2013) Committees of Slavists, Chairman of the Commission on Slavic Formation at the International Committee of Slavists (since 2008). Editor-in-Chief of the Belarusan Linguistic Yearbook (since 2005).

Works on Belarusian and Slavic word formation, problems of Belarusian-Russian bilingualism and sociolinguistics, problems of modern development and functioning of the Belarusian language and Belarusian spelling. Created a new scientific direction in the Belarusian linguistics - developed a theoretical framework and implemented a practical description of the system of Belarusian word formation from the standpoint of grammatical parameters of motivated and motivating words. He is the co-author of the first in the Belarusian lexicography "Dictionary of the Belarusian language." He revealed the patterns of innovative changes in the vocabulary and word formation of the Belarusian language at the end of the XX - beginning of the XXI centuries. and explored, on a broad Slavic background, the peculiarities of the development of the vocabulary of the modern Belarusian language from the standpoint of trends towards internationalization and nationalization. He explored the problems of the Belarusian-Russian bilingualism and language interaction, revealed the legal, linguistic, sociolinguistic, political, psycholinguistic and pragmatic aspects of the functioning of the Belarusian language in the context of state bilingualism. One of the main developers of the Law of the Republic of Belarus "On the rules of Belarusian spelling and punctuation" (2008), author and co-author of a number of practical manuals and reference books on Belarusian spelling, scientific editor of a number of modern spelling dictionaries of the Belarusian language, and bilingual Belarusian-Russian and Russian-Belarusian dictionaries prepared in accordance with the law.

Author of more than 300 scientific papers, including 12 monographs, 4 dictionaries.

Winner of the awards of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in 2001 and 2011.

Major papers:

Словаўтваральны слоўнік беларускай мовы. Мн.: Беларуская навука, 2000 (совм. с А.М.Бордовичем, М.М.Круталевичем).
Словаўтварэнне і граматыка. Мн.: Права і эканоміка, 2001.
Праблемы сучаснага беларускага словаўтварэння. Мн.: Беларуская навука, 2013.