Mikhail Egorovich Alekseev (

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: Михаи́л Его́рович Алексе́ев) (24 October 1949, in

Mytishchi Mytishchi ( rus, Мыти́щи, p=mɨˈtʲiɕːɪ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Mytishchinsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, which lies 19 km northeast of Russia's capital Moscow o ...

– 23 May 2014, in Ufa) was a Soviet and Russian linguist specializing in Nakh-Daghestanian languages.

Career

Alekseev was the vice-director of the Institute of Linguistics 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 Pamir 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.

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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 Linguists from Russia Moscow State University alumni {{Russia-linguist-stub