Timur Maisak

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Selected publications and handouts in English

(See here selected publications in Russian)

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Monographs & 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.

 

 

Caucasian languages

(See also: http://iling-ran.academia.edu/TimurMaisak/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. DOI 10.1515/9783110424942-030

Timur Maisak. 2016. Morphological fusion without syntactic fusion: the case of the “verificative” in Agul // Linguistics 54(4): 815–870. DOI 10.1515/ling-2016-0015

 

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. 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]

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]

 

 

Typology

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]

 

 

Reviews

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 [http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/13/13-2166.html]

 

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