Elena Viktorovna Paducheva

Yelena Viktorovna Paducheva (; 26 September 1935 – 16 July 2019) was a Russian linguist specializing in semantics, pragmatics, tense–aspect–mood and evidentiality. She spent her career as a researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Early life and education Paducheva was born and raised in Moscow, with the exception of a period when her family was evacuated to Samarkand during World War II. When Roman Jakobson visited Moscow during her studies, Akhmanova introduced her to him as “the rising star of Soviet linguistics”.

Research Paducheva authored ten books and circa 200 articles.

Paducheva worked extensively on computational lexicography, and played a leading role in the Lexicographer project for over thirty years. The project constructed a systematic database of Russian verbs, building on the insight that the lexicon is a system like other levels of linguistic analysis. Paducheva's work on Lexicographer is summarized in her 2004 book Dynamic models of lexical semantics.

Personal life Paducheva and Zaliznyak married in 1958. Their daughter, , was born in 1959. She also became a linguist; she is an expert in Russian aspectology and semantic typology.

Selected publications Paducheva, Yelena V. 1985. Vyskazyvanie I ego sootvestvennost’ s dejstvitel’nost’ju: referencial’nye semantiki mestoimenii (The utterance and its correspondence with reality: referentiality of the semantics of pronouns). Moscow: Nauka. Paducheva, Yelena V. 1996. Semanticheskie issledovaniya: Semantika vremeni i vida v russkom yazyke; Semantika narrativa (Semantic studies: Semantics of tense and aspect in Russian; Semantics of the narrative). Moscow: Jazyka russkoj kul'tury. Paducheva, Yelena V. 1998. On non-compatibility of partitive and imperfective in Russian. Theoretical Linguistics 24 (1), 73–82. Paducheva, Yelena V. 2004. Dinamicheskie modeli v semantike leksiki (Dynamic models of lexical semantics). Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskoj kul'tury. Borschev, Vladimir, Yelena V. Paducheva, Barbara H. Partee, Yakov G. Testelets & Igor Yanovich. 2008. Russian genitives, non-referentiality, and the property-type hypothesis. In A. Antonenko, J. F. Bailyn & Ch. Bethin (eds.), Proceedings of the Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 16): The Stony Brook meeting (2007), 48–67. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publishers.