Timur Maisak |
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Monographs & major edited works
Timur Maisak. 2005. Grammatikalizacija konstrukcij s glagolami dviženija i glagolami pozicii. {= Grammaticalization paths of motion and posture verbs: a typology.} — Moskva: Jazyki slavjanskix kul´tur. — 480 pp.
In Russian. English summary of the book: [PDF].
(The book is a revised and extended version of Ph.D.; for the summary of the latter, see here: LINGUIST List 13.2156, Fri Aug 23 2002)
Timur Maisak, Ekaterina Rakhilina (eds). 2007. Glagoly dviženija v vode: leksicheskaja tipologija. {= Verbs of aqua-motion: lexical typology}. — Moskva: Indrik. — 752 pp.
In Russian and English. English summary of the book: [PDF].
More information: http://aquamotion.narod.ru/index-eng.html
Mikhail Alekseev, Timur Maisak, Dmitry Ganenkov, Yury Lander (eds). 2008. Udinksij sbornik: grammatika, leksika, istorija jayzka. {= Udi collection: grammar, lexicon, history of the language.} (Issledovanija i materialy po jazykam Kavkaza, 1) — Moskva: Academia. — 463 pp.
In Russian and English. More information: http://udilang.narod.ru/field.html.
Gilles Authier, Timur Maisak (eds). 2011. Tense, mood, aspect and finiteness in East Caucasian languages. (Diversitas Linguarum, 30) — Bochum: Brockmeyer. — 204 pp.
In English. More information here.
Timur Maisak. 2014. Agul´skie teksty 1900-1960-x godov. {= Agul texts of 1900s-1960s.} (Issledovanija i materialy po jazykam Kavkaza, 2) — Moskva: Academia. — 496 pp.
In Russian. More information here.
Timur Maisak, Vladimir Plungjan, Xenia Semionova (eds). 2016. Issledovanija po teorii grammatiki. Vyp. 7: Tipologija perfekta. {= } — SPb.: Nauka — 840 pp. (Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Trudy Instituta lingvističeskix issledovanij RAN. T. XII. Č. 2.)
In Russian and English. Full text here.
Dmitry Ganenkov, Timur Maisak (eds). 2017. Padež, soglasovanie i argumentnaja struktura v naxsko-dagestanskix jazykax. {= Case, agreement and argument structure in Nakh-Daghestanian languages.} — SPb.: Nauka. — P. 503—861. (Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Trudy Instituta lingvističeskix issledovanij RAN. T. XIII. Č. 1.)
In Russian and English. Full text here.
Diana Forker, Timur Maisak (eds). 2018. The semantics of verbal categories in Nakh-Daghestanian languages: Tense, aspect, evidentiality, mood and modality. — Leiden: Brill. — 218 pp. (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 16)
In English. More information here.
Timur Maisak, Andrei Sideltsev (eds). 2020. K 70-letiju Instituta jazykoznanija RAN. Svoimi slovami: Institut jazykoznanija v vospominanijax sotrudnikov. 1950—2020. {= } — Moskva: Institut jazykoznanija RAN. — 110 pp.
In Russian. More information here.
Timur Maisak, Nina Sumbatova, Yakov Testelets (eds). 2021. Durqasi xazna. Sbornik statej k 60-letiju R. O. Mutalova. {= } — Moskva: Buki Vedi. — 480 pp.
In Russian, English and Dargwa. Full text here.
Papers on Caucasian languages
- Book chapters and journal papers
Timur Maisak, Sergei Tatevosov. 2007. Beyond Evidentiality and Mirativity: Evidence from Tsakhur // Guentchéva Z., Landaburu J. (eds). L’Énonciation médiatisée II. Le traitement épistémologique de l’information: illustrations amérindiennes et caucasiennes. Louvain etc.: Peeters, 2007. P. 377-406. [PDF]
Dmitry Ganenkov, Timur Maisak, Solmaz Merdanova. 2008. Non-canonical Agent marking in Agul // Helen de Hoop & Peter de Swart (eds). Differential Subject Marking. (Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 72.) Dordrecht: Springer, 2008. P. 173-198. [PDF]
Dmitry Ganenkov, Yury Lander, Timur Maisak. 2010. From interrogatives to placeholders in Udi and Agul spontaneous narratives // Nino Amiridze, Boyd Davis, Margaret Maclagan (eds). Fillers, Pauses, and Placeholders. (Typological Studies in Language, 93) Amsterdam: Benjamins. [PDF, draft 2010]
Timur Maisak. 2011. The Present and the Future within the Lezgic tense and aspect systems // Gilles Authier, Timur Maisak (eds) Tense, aspect, modality and finiteness in East Caucasian languages. (Diversitas Lingvarum, 30). Bochum: Brockmeyer. [PDF]
Michael Daniel, Timur Maisak, Solmaz Merdanova. 2012. Causatives in Agul // Pirkko Suihkonen, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev (eds). Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A Crosslinguistic Typology. (Studies in Language Companion Series). Amsterdam: Benjamins. [PDF, draft 2012]
Dmitry Ganenkov, Timur Maisak. 2016. Aghul // Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen, Franz Rainer (eds), Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe. [HSK Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, 40/2.] Berlin: De Gruyter. P. 3579–3594. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424942-030
Timur Maisak. 2016. Morphological fusion without syntactic fusion: the case of the “verificative” in Agul // Linguistics 54(4): 815–870. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2016-0015
Timur Maisak. 2016. Subject pronoun doubling in Agul: Spoken corpus data on a rare discourse pattern // Studies in language, 40(4): 955–987.
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.40.4.08mai Timur Maisak. 2018. The Aorist / Perfect distinction in Nizh Udi // Diana Forker & Timur Maisak (eds.), The semantics of verbal categories in Nakh-Daghestanian languages: Tense, aspect, evidentiality, mood/modality. Leiden: Brill. P. 120–165.
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004361805_006 Peter Arkadiev, Timur Maisak. 2018. Grammaticalization in the North Caucasian languages // Heiko Narrog & Bernd Heine (eds.), Grammaticalization from a typological perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. P. 116–145.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795841.003.0007 Timur Maisak. 2018. The attributivizing marker in Andi (Nakh-Daghestanian): clitic, affix, or both? //
Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. February 9-11, 2018. Ed. by Karee Garvin, Noah Hermalin, Myriam Lapierre, Yevgeniy Melguy, Tessa Scott, Eric Wilbanks Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society. P. 163–178.
Timur Maisak. 2019. Repetitive prefix in Agul: morphological copy from a closely related language // International Journal of Bilingualism, 23(2): 486-508.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006917740060
Timur Maisak. 2019. Borrowing from an unrelated language in support of intragenetic tendencies: the case of the conditional clitic
-sa in Udi // Diachronica, 36(3): 337–383.
https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.18019.mai
Timur Maisak. 2020. Relative clauses in Agul from a corpus-based perspective // STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 73(1): 113–158.
https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2019-0029
Timur Maisak. 2020. Grammaticalization in Lezgic (East Caucasian) // Walter Bisang & Andrej Malchukov (eds.), Grammaticalization Scenarios: Cross-linguistic Variation and Universal Tendencies. Vol. 1: Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia (Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL], 4.1). Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. P. 309–360.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110563146-006
Timur Maisak, Solmaz Merdanova. 2020. Bivalent patterns in Aghul //
Sergey Say (ed.). BivalTyp: Typological database of bivalent verbs and their encoding frames. St.Petersburg: Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS. (Data first published on September 9, 2020; last revised on September 9, 2020.) (Available online at
https://www.bivaltyp.info/languages/descriptions/Aghul.html)
Timur Maisak. 2020. The verb paradigm in Kina Rutul // Higher School of Economics Working Papers. Series: Linguistics, WP BRP 95/LNG/2020. 29 pp.
https://wp.hse.ru/data/2020/10/27/1359252160/95LNG2020.pdf
Dmitry Ganenkov, Timur Maisak. 2020. Nakh-Dagestanian languages // Maria Polinsky (ed.), The Oxford handbook of languages of the Caucasus. Oxford: Oxford University Press. P. 87–145.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190690694.013.4
Timur Maisak. 2021. Endoclitics in Andi // Folia Linguistica, 55(1): 1–34.
https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2020-2069
Timur Maisak. 2021. Structural and functional variations of the perfect in the Lezgic languages // Kristin Melum Eide & Marc Fryd (eds). The Perfect Volume: Papers on the Perfect. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. P. 87–115.
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.217.04mai Timur Maisak. 2021. Numeral classifiers in Udi: a unique contact-induced development among Nakh-Daghestanian? // Journal of Language Contact, 14: 330–367.
https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-14020004
Yuri Lander, Timur Maisak. 2021. “Other” Strategies in the Eastern Caucasus (Part I): Data from Udi // Iran and the Caucasus, 25(3): 272–283.
https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-20210304
Yuri Lander, Timur Maisak. 2022. “Other” Strategies in the Eastern Caucasus (Part II): Typology // Iran and the Caucasus, 26(3): 272–288.
https://doi.org/10.1163/1573384X-20220306
Timur Maisak. 2023. From an adverb/postposition ‘behind’ to a discourse marker: The particle
reχu in Andi // Alessandra Barotto & Simone Mattiola (eds.), Discourse phenomena in typological perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. P. 93–133.
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.227.05mai
Timur Maisak. 2023. The Udi language: its history and modern development // Journal of Endangered Languages / Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi, 13(22): 55–72.
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tdd/issue/76029/1228786
Timur Maisak. 2023. The Udi language: its history and modern development // Jala Garibova, Elisabetta Ragagnin (eds.), Linguistic diversity in Azerbaijan: present state and future challenges. Ankara: Grafiker Yayınları. P. 87–114.
Timur Maisak. 2023. Variation in focus constructions in Nakh-Daghestanian // Songs and Trees: Papers in Memory of Sasha Vydrina. Ed. by Nina Sumbatova, Ivan Kapitonov, Maria Khachaturyan, Sofia Oskolskaya, Samira Verhees. St. Petersburg: Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. P. 363–424.
https://doi.org/10.30842/9785604799925202314
Timur Maisak, Samira Verhees. 2024. The ‘Still Not’ Present in Andi: identifying the grammaticalization source // Folia Linguistica Historica, vol. 58, no. s45-s1: 185–220.
https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2024-2007
Timur Maisak. 2025. Bears and men: three stories from Daghestan (Lezgic languages) // Tatiana B. Agranat & Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva (eds.),
Bear Tales in Minority Languages: Beliefs and Visions. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. P. 21–40.
Timur Maisak. 2025. Bears and women: three stories from Daghestan (Avar and Bezhta) // Tatiana B. Agranat & Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva (eds.),
Bear Tales in Minority Languages: Beliefs and Visions. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. P. 41–55.
Michael Daniel, Timur Maisak, Solmaz Merdanova. 2004.
Causatives, decausatives and lability in Agul // International Symposium on
the Typology of Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations in Languages Spoken
in Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA-2). Kazan State University,
Tatarstan Republic, Russia, May 11-14, 2004. [PDF] Timur Maisak. 2006. The Present and the Future within the
Lezgic TAM systems: synchronic and diachronic regularities. Paper presented
at the Workshop on the
Morphosyntax of Caucasian Languages, 11-14 December 2006, Paris. [PDF] Dmitry Ganenkov, Yury Lander, Timur Maisak. 2007.
“Placeholders” in Agul and Udi spontaneous narratives. Paper presented at
the
Conference on the Languages of the Caucasus, 7-9 December 2007, Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. [PDF] Timur Maisak. 2007. “Opaque” tense and aspect forms in the
light of intra-genetic and areal typology (the case of Udi). Paper presented
at the
Conference on the Languages of the Caucasus, 7-9 December 2007, Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. [PDF] Dmitry Ganenkov, Timur Maisak. 2008. Contact-induced
morphological change in Agul dialects. Paper presented at the workshop “Morphological
Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus” during the
13th
International Morphology Meeting, 5-6 February 2008, Vienna. [PDF] Timur Maisak. 2008. The Agul language in its Daghestanian context. Paper presented at the Seminar on
the Noun Phrase Typology (TypoULM), 17 November 2008, École normale supérieure, Paris.
[PDF] Timur Maisak. 2008. Morphology, semantics and syntax of
participles in Agul. Paper presented at the Seminar on the Noun Phrase
Typology (TypoULM), 8 December 2008, École normale supérieure, Paris.
[PDF] Timur Maisak. 2009. Morphologization of matrix verbs: the
case of “Verificative” in Agul. Paper presented at the Conference “Morphology
of the World's Languages”, June 11-13 2009, University of Leipzig. [PDF] Dmitry Ganenkov, Timur Maisak, Solmaz Merdanova. 2009. The
origin and use of quotative markers in Agul. Paper presented at the workshop
“Quotative markers: origins and use” during the
42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 9-12 September
2009, University of Lisbon. [PDF] Dmitry Ganenkov, Timur Maisak,
Solmaz Merdanova. 2010. Periphrastic verbal forms and clause structure in
Agul. Paper presented at the workshop “Typology
of Periphrasis”, University of Surrey, 7-8 June,
2010. [PDF] Timur Maisak, Solmaz Merdanova. 2011.
Repetitive prefix in Agul and its areal/genetic background.
Paper presented at the
Conference on Caucasian languages, Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig,
13-15 May 2011. [PDF] Timur Maisak. 2012. The functions of a borrowed marker
-sa in Nizh Udi. Paper presented at the conference
TYPOLOGY, THEORY:
CAUCASUS. İstanbul, 29 Nov. – 1 Dec. 2012. [PDF] Timur Maisak. 2013. The Aorist/Perfect distinction in Nizh
Udi. Paper presented at the workshop
Tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality in Nakh-Daghestanian languages.
Leipzig, MPI-EVA, 19 August 2013. [PDF]
Timur Maisak. 2014.
Preverbs in Agul: an elaborate
system of locative prefixation. Paper presented at the
workshop
East
Caucasian preverbs and the compounding-derivation-inflection continuum
adjacent to the conference
Syntax of the World's Languages VI (SWL6), University of Pavia, 11 September
2014. [PDF] Timur Maisak. 2015.
The functions of additive markers in
two Lezgic languages (Agul and Udi). Paper
presented at the
workshop
Additives across languages during the
48th Annual Meeting of the
Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, 4
September 2015. [PDF] Timur Maisak. 1999. Multiple periphrastic perfectives: another case of “bounder perfectivization” //
Language Typology: Proceedings of electronic conference (May 15-25, 1999). Web Journal of Formal, Computational & Cognitive Linguistics. CD
Edition, 2000. 24 pp. [PDF]
Anna A. Zalizniak, Maria Bulakh, Dmitrij Ganenkov,
Ilya Gruntov, Timur Maisak, Maxim Russo. 2012.
The catalogue of semantic shifts as a database for lexical semantic
typology //
Linguistics 50.3, 633-669.
Yury Lander, Timur Maisak, Ekaterina Rakhilina. 2012. Domains of aqua-motion: a case study in lexical
typology // Emile van der Zee & Mila Vulchanova (eds.)
Motion Encoding in
Language and Space. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [PDF,
draft 2008] Timur Maisak. 2002. Rev.: Heine, Bernd, and Tania Kuteva (2002) World Lexicon of Grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press, 387pp. // LINGUIST List 13.2166, Sat Aug 24 2002
[https://linguistlist.org/issues/13/2166/]
Timur Maisak, Solmaz Merdanova. 2010. Reported
speech and “semi-directness” in Agul. Paper presented at the
workshop “Reported speech in East Caucasian
languages” preceding the
Syntax of the
World’s Languages IV, Lyon, 22 September 2010. [PDF]
Timur Maisak. 2010. Predicate topicalization in East Caucasian languages.
Paper presented at the
Syntax of the
World’s Languages IV, Lyon, 23-26 September 2010. [PDF]Papers on typology
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