Mikhail Egorovich Alekseev ( Russian: Михаи́л Его́рович Алексе́ев) (24 October 1949, in

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– 23 May 2014, in

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) was a Soviet and Russian linguist specializing in Nakh-Daghestanian languages.

Career

Alekseev was the vice-director of the

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of the

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, and the head of its section on Caucasian languages. He studied linguistics at

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with Aleksandr E. Kibrik, taking part in several field trips to

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and Daghestanian languages. He defended his dissertation in 1975, supervised by Georgiy A. Klimov, on "The problem of the affective/experiential sentence construction". Alekseev's later contributions mostly concerned the historical-comparative study of Daghestanian languages. He was a close colleague and collaborator of

Sergei A. Starostin Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin (russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич Ста́ростин; March 24, 1953 – September 30, 2005) was a Russian historical linguist and philologist, perhaps best known for his reconstructions of hypothe ...

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Obituary (in Russian)
at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1949 births 2014 deaths Linguists from the Soviet Union People from Mytishchi 20th-century linguists Linguists from Russia Moscow State University alumni {{Russia-linguist-stub