Майсак Тимур Анатольевич

Education and Degrees

2023

Doctor of Sciences*
HSE University

2002

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Comparative Historical, Typological and Contrastive Linguistics
Thesis Title: Typology of grammaticalization paths of motion and posture verbs

1998

Degree in Linguistics
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Philological Faculty

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

* Doctor of Sciences
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.

Professional Interests

language contact grammatical typology lexical typology grammaticalization grammatical categories of the verb Nakh-Daghestanian languages Agul Aghul Udi Rutul andi Lezgic languages Andic languages linguistic typology

Awards and Accomplishments

Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2021

Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses

for a Candidate of Sciences degree

1
A. Zakirova Number Marking Across Different Word Classes in the East Caucasian Languages, 2023
2
A. Russkih Functions of Additive Particles in Languages of the Caucasus

Courses (2024/2025)

A Grammar of a non (Standard Average) European Language (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
Past Courses

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Editorial board membership

Editorial board member of the Languages of the Caucasus book series (at Language Science Press) since 2018.

Deputy Chief Editor of the Jazykoznanie publishing house since 2023.

2015: Member of the Editorial Board , Languages of the Caucasus.

2012: Member of the Editorial Board , Родной язык: лингвистический журнал.

Dissertation for a degree of Doctor of Science

2023
T. Maisak Грамматикализация в нахско-дагестанских языках: типологические, диахронические и ареальные аспекты

Conferences

2020
53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Presentation: Adverb/postposition ‘after’ to sequential connective ‘then’ to discourse-pragmatic marker in Andi

2019
52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Leipzig). Presentation: Numeral classifiers in Udi: a unique contact-induced development among Nakh-Daghestanian?

2018
The 44th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society" (Беркли). Presentation: Attributives in Andi (Nakh-Daghestanian): clitics, affixes, or both?
18th International Morphology Meeting (Будапешт). Presentation: Endoclitics in Andi
Syntax of the World’s Languages VIII (Париж). Presentation: Some remarkable features of negative verb forms in Andi (Nakh-Daghestanian)

2017
The 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Цюрих). Presentation: The future and the prospective within a tense-aspect system: the case of Andi
ALT-12 (Канберра). Presentation: Tense and aspect among the factors conditioning the distribution of quotatives: Data from Andi
Малые языки в большой лингвистике (Москва). Presentation: «Презенс нарушенного ожидания» в андийском языке: морфология, семантика и путь грамматикализации
Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2017 (Москва). Presentation: Эндоклитики внутри глагола: теперь и в андийском

2016
Valency and Valency Change in the Caucasus (Москва). Presentation: Valency Issues in Northeast-Caucasian

Employment history

Since 2001: Researcher at the Department of Caucasian Languages of the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences

In 2013-2014: Assistant Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of the Philological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Lecturer in Linguistic Typology)

14

Jan

2021

Members of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory contributed chapters to new Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus

A new Oxford Handbook dedicated to the languages of the Caucasus appeared this month. It contains several contributions from members of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory.

2

Sep

2020

Members of the Linguistic convergence laboratory participated in the SLE conference online

The 53rd SLE conference was held in an unconventional format for the first time in history. The Linguistic convergence laboratory was represented by a number of talks.

29

Sep

2019

Members of the Laboratory Participated in International Conferences

At the end of the summer members of the Laboratory presented their researches at two large international conferences on linguistics — SLE and ALT.

Timur Maisak