sentences:  Having learnt German and English in addition to his Armenian, Georgian and Russian, Shaumyan took his degree in philology at Tbilisi State University.Shaumyan published "Structural Linguistics" in 1965 and founded the Section of Structural Linguistics at the Institute of Russian Language in Moscow.He co-wrote Fundamentals of the "Generative Grammar of Russian" (1958), and "Applicational Generative Model and Transformational Calculus of Russian" (1963), both with Soboleva.