Mark Yakovlevich Bloch (; 16 August 1924 – 16 September 2022)Памяти Марка Яковлевича Блоха was a Russian linguist and philologist. He was the author of a number of literary works under the literary pseudonym of Mark Lensky.
He was a professor, serving as head of the English language and grammar department of the Moscow Pedagogical State University, head of the foreign languages department of the Moscow Humanitarian and Technical Academy. He was an honorary professor of MPGU, an honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the International Academy of Sciences of Pedagogical Education, as well as a member of the Writers' Union of Russia, the Russian Union of Journalists, and the Russian Writers' Club of New York.
Bloch's main fields of research included English language theory, general, typological and German linguistics, translation theory, and linguodidactics. He wrote over 200 scientific works, including the monographs "Theoretical English Grammar"Blokh M. Theoretical English Grammar. – Мосscow, 1983. – P. 383 and "The Theoretical Bases of Grammar".Блох М. Я. Теоретические основы грамматики: Учеб. – 2-е изд., испр. – М.: Высш. шк., 2000. – 160 с. Bloсh has also founded a scientific school of communicative-paradigmatic linguistics.Scientists of MPSU Bloch introduced the concept of "dictema" into grammar as an elementary situational-thematic unit of the text.
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