Mikhail Alekseev (linguist)

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Mikhail Alekseev
Nakh-Daghestanian languages
Scientific career
Fieldslinguistics
InstitutionsInstitute of Linguistics
Doctoral advisorGeorgy Klimov

Mikhail Egorovich Alekseev (Russian: Михаи́л Его́рович Алексе́ев) (24 October 1949, in Mytishchi – 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 Russian Academy of Sciences, and the head of its section on Caucasian languages.

He studied linguistics at

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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