Isaak Revzin
Isaak Iosifovic Revzin (; 1923–1974) 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 (and from a distance) 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
 (with Olga Revzina) 'Expérimentation sémiotique chez Eugene Ionesco', Semiotica 4 (1960), pp. 240–262. 'The relationship between structural and statistical methods in modern linguistics', Foreign developments in machine translation and information processing, 1961, pp. 43–53
 Models of language, London: Methuen, 1966. Translated by N. F. C. Owen and A. S. C. Ross from the Russian Modeli jazyka (1962). (with others) The fundamentals of human and machine translations, 1966

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1923 births
1974 deaths
Linguists from the Soviet Union
Russian semioticians
20th-century linguists
Turkish emigrants to the Soviet Union